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Mortality was assessed through 30 and 90 days. Species and mortality associations were estimated with multivariable Cox models. Antifungal therapy was evaluated as a post-culture time-dependent exposure and in stabilized inverse-probability-weighted analyses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among 548 patients (median age, 66 years; 54.9% male; 33.4% non-Hispanic Black; 33.6% Hispanic), 78.3% required mechanical ventilation, 72.3% received vasopressors, and 30-day mortality was 27.0%. C albicans accounted for 478 isolates (87.2%), C glabrata for 18 (3.3%), and other non-albicans Candida spp. for 52 (9.5%). Compared with C albicans, C glabrata was associated with higher 30-day mortality (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 2.19; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.05\u20134.56) and 90-day mortality (aHR, 2.18; 95% CI, 1.11\u20134.27). Antifungal therapy was not associated with lower 30-day mortality in time-dependent analysis (aHR, 1.25; 95% CI, 0.80\u20131.95) or weighted analysis (HR, 1.06; 95% CI, 0.64\u20131.75); 90-day analyses were also null.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Respiratory Candida spp. identified severe illness. C glabrata identified a small high-mortality subgroup, but systemic antifungal therapy was not associated with improved survival, supporting caution against treating respiratory culture positivity alone.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/ofid\/ofag550","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,25]],"date-time":"2026-08-25T11:37:14Z","timestamp":1787657834000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["No Survival Benefit Associated With Antifungal Therapy for Respiratory\n                    <i>Candida<\/i>\n                    spp.: a Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6856-9549","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jared","family":"Coe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center , Bronx, New York 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