**6. Mortality**

The crude mortality rate was 24.10%, but the mortality rate among children was significantly lower. (see Table 3) As it has been described in different studies published in the medical literature candidemia due to *C. parapsilosis* had a lower mortality rate than the rate due other Candida species (Morgan et al., 2005, Pappas et al., 2004, Pemán et al., 2002), but no statistically significant result when analyzing the death rate of patients infected by a susceptible isolate (54%) or a less-susceptible isolate (SDD or resistant) (64%) among patients who received fluconazole as treatment. (*P* ≤ 0.44).
