It is estimated that over 57 600 people in Jamaica probably suffer from serious fungal infections each year, most related to allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and severe asthma with fungal sensitization, recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis and AIDS-related opportunistic infections. Endemicity of histoplasmosis is established.

A review of 595 bacterial isolates from cases of urinary tract infection (UTI) for the years 2005─2007 in St Kitts demonstrated predominance of Escherichia coli followed by Citrobacter spp, Enterobacter spp. The isolates exhibited low resistance (8.7 to 17.8 %) to cotrimoxazole, a commonly used antimicrobial in UTI”.