[CASE REPORT OF CANDIDA PNEUMONIA]

Fungal pneumonia is considered as one of the most serious forms of pneumonia, the number of which has recently increased despite the use of new antimycotic drugs in pulmonology. Specificity of pathogens and torpid current of pneumomycosis represent great difficulties for accurate diagnosis and delay the timely onset of therapy, exacerbating inflammatory changes. In this article we present a rare case of isolated infection of the lungs parenchyma with Candida albicans in the form of focal pneumonia of the right lung lower lobe complicated by a clotted pleurisy. Patient is eighteen-year-old young man who is currently finding in the army. Our attention was attracted the fact that he was hospitalized twice within the 4 months with the same diagnosis - fungal pneumonia. At the same time, the localization of the process was the same as in the previous hospitalization. In this article, we tried to understand the reasons of unsuccessful treatment of this pathology. And we came to the following conclusions that the reason of repeated hospitalization of this patient was the short stay in the hospital and the duration of the diagnostic tests. Bacteriological examination of sputum takes about 5-7 days on average, which led to untimely started treatment. A short period of hospitalization, regulated by the protocols of diagnosis and treatment, contributed to inadequate treatment of this pathology. Thus, today there is a definite demand for the development of rapid diagnostic tests of fungal pneumonia and new protocols for diagnosis and treatment, taking into account the duration of treatment for Candida infection.