Canidida infection of the upper gastrointestinal tract superadded upon chemical injury with acids.

Two male patients, who presented with Candida albicans infection of the upper gastrointestinal tract, superadded over local mucosal injury due to corrosive chemical agents and chronic alcoholism have been described. Such an association of prior local injury with this type of fungal infection has not been hitherto documented. One of these patients had a gastric antral stricture due to ingestion of concentrated sulfuric acid and Candida esophagitis, whereas the other had severe erosive gastritis and Candida gastritis following ingestion of thiocyanates.