10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 6 Issue 4 2015 (October - December) Candiduria is an important nosocomial infection afflicting urinary tract. Candiduria in critically ill patients may be life threatening. The common risk factors for Candiduria are indwelling urinary catheter, antibiotic usage, diabetes mellitus, and prolonged hospitalization. lessThan i greaterThan Candida albicans lessThan /i greaterThan has been reported as the most common causative organism for Candiduria in most of the observational studies, followed by lessThan i greaterThan Candida glabrata lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Candida tropicalis lessThan /i greaterThan . Species identification of the lessThan i greaterThan Candida lessThan /i greaterThan causing nosocomial UTI should be an important routine procedure before initiating treatment as some are inherently resistant to fluconazole. The present study was thus envisaged with the aim to study the incidence of Candiduria in the ICU of a rural tertiary care hospital, Ambajogai and to identify lessThan i greaterThan Candida lessThan /i greaterThan isolates upto species level by various phenotypic methods, and study their antifungal susceptibility pattern. Species identification was done by the germ tube test, cornmeal agar morphology, CHROMagar, sugar assimilation and fermentation test.. Antifungal susceptibility was done by disk diffusion method. From 76 urinary samples 35 (46.05%) lessThan i greaterThan Candida lessThan /i greaterThan species were isolated. lessThan i greaterThan Candida tropicalis lessThan /i greaterThan was most commonly isolated species followed by lessThan i greaterThan Candida albicans lessThan /i greaterThan . Resistance to fluconazole, ketoconazole and itraconazole was high in non- lessThan i greaterThan albicans lessThan /i greaterThan group. NUZHAT FIRDOS, DEEPALI.M.KULKARNI, SANDEEP.L.NILEKAR AND SWATI KANT Candiduria , catheterized , antifungal susceptibility, CHROMagar. 126-132