These authors contributed equally to this work.

Although cervicovaginal Candida infections occur in 20 to 25% of pregnancies, ascending infections only account for 0.8 % of such infections, and they rarely cause chorioamnionitis.1 Congenital candidiasis is very rare in both term and preterm infants, with less than 100 neonatal cases having been published in the medical literature.2 In addition, congenital Candida infections are associated with intrauterine death or death in the immediate newborn period from disseminated disease, and the more premature a newborn infant is the greater the risk of death.3We report the case of an extremely premature infant with congenital candidiasis, who was suc-cessfully treated and survived without major sequelae. Case Report A 28-year-old, gravida 1, para 1, mother was referred to our medical center at 22 weeks ’ gestation because of signs o