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We observed that some genotypes can be found in blood cultures more frequently than others, some of them being called widespread genotypes because have been found in unrelated patients admitted to different hospitals. The presence of widespread genotypes may be more frequently found because of their predisposition to cause candidemia. It is unclear whether genotypes colonizing other anatomical sites different from the gastrointestinal tract can also be detected in this way; we studied <jats:italic>C. albicans<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>C. parapsilosis<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>C. tropicalis<\/jats:italic> colonizing genotypes to assess what proportion could be found in blood cultures and the proportion of widespread genotypes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The isolates (n= 640 <jats:italic>Candida<\/jats:italic> isolates from 323 patients) studied herein were obtained from samples processed at the Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department of the Gregorio Mara\u00f1\u00f3n Hospital (Madrid, Spain) from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2019. <jats:italic>C. albicans<\/jats:italic> (n=486), <jats:italic>C. parapsilosis<\/jats:italic> (n=94), and <jats:italic>C. tropicalis<\/jats:italic> (n=60) isolates were genotyped using species-specific microsatellite markers and sourced from blood (n=120) and colonized anatomical sites (n=520; catheter [n=50], lower respiratory tract [n=227], skin\/mucosa [n=132], and urinary tract [n=111]). Isolates with identical genotypes were those presenting the same alleles for all markers or with only differences at one locus of a given marker. Identical genotypes were further classified as a match (identical genotype found in different groups of samples from a given patient) or as a cluster (identical genotype found in \u22652 patients). Finally, singletons were genotypes detected once. The genotypes found were then compared with our in-house database containing 587 blood genotypes from patients admitted to the Gregorio Mara\u00f1\u00f3n Hospital (2007-2023) to assess the proportion of genotypes found in colonized samples that were also found in blood cultures. Moreover, since some of our in-house database genotypes had been tagged as widespread genotypes, we compared the proportions of widespread genotypes as well as the proportions of matches, clusters, and patients involved in clusters found among exclusively colonizing genotypes, exclusively blood culture genotypes, and both colonizing and blood culture genotypes using a standard binomial method.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Intra-patient analysis was conducted exclusively on those patients (n=225; 69.7%) who had \u22652 isolates from a given species; the proportion of patients with matches was lower in exclusively colonized patients than in patients with candidemia and colonizing genotypes (87.3% vs. 94.1%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.126). Inter-patient analysis was conducted considering all patients (n=323) and isolates from groups 1, 2, and 3 (n=640). Overall, we detected 341 genotypes, of which 320 were singletons and 21 were clusters (6.16%). Clusters involving blood cultures and colonizing isolates sourced from catheter tips (14.6%), skin and mucosa (7.5%), urine (7.4%), and lower respiratory tract (4.6%). Cluster-involved patients had not been admitted to the same ward at the same time. Of the 290 colonizing genotypes, 91 (31.1%) were also found in blood cultures, the highest proportion being <jats:italic>C. parapsilosis<\/jats:italic> (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05); proportions of identical genotypes found in blood cultures and catheter tips were higher than those found in blood cultures and other colonized samples (79.2% vs. 26.7%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001). Widespread genotype ratios were significantly higher among genotypes found in both blood and colonized samples than among genotypes found exclusively in either blood culture or other colonizing genotypes (31.9% vs. 7.1% vs. 3.7%, respectively; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>We observed that 94% of patients with candidemia were colonized by a genotype causing the infection; likewise, a total of 31% of colonizing genotypes were detectable in blood cultures. 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