Candida albicans septicaemia during first half of pregnancy successfully treated with 5-fluorocytosine.

Cases of intrauterine candida infection during pregnancy are probably very grave and not too rare. They are likely to result in a dead fetus and a spontaneous abortion (Albarracin et al., 1967; Aterman, 1968; Lopez and Aterman, 1968; Ho and Aterman, 1970). In these cases the infection is generally