Candida glabrata prosthesis infection following pyelonephritis and septicaemia.

Candida glabrata is a well-known cause of lower urinary tract infections. Systemic infections caused by this organism are less common, but have increased dramatically in recent years. Prosthesis infection caused by C. glabrata is extremely rare. We report a case of prosthesis failure due to C. glabrata 5 y after candidaemia and pyelonephritis caused by this organism. The same C. glabrata strain was isolated from both infections, as confirmed by the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) method.