[Correspondence] Not all candidaemia alike: the intra-abdominal perspective

We read with interest the Review by Ilana Reinhold and colleagues in The Lancet Infectious Diseases,1 and commend the authors for proposing a pragmatic framework to distinguish uncomplicated from complicated candidaemia. Their emphasis on intra-abdominal candidiasis as a source of candidaemia is pertinent, although candidaemia from this origin is uncommon, occurring in fewer than 5% of patients.2 Their proposal to classify patients with candidaemia in cases of intra-abdominal candidiasis according to timing of source control and adequacy of antifungal therapy is pragmatic but, in our view, incomplete.