A 32-year-old immunocompetent man sustained severe traumas contaminated with organic material due to a car accident. An infection caused by Lichtheimia ramosa at the site of contamination was early diagnosed and cured by multiple surgical debridement and daily cleansing with antiseptic solution only.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe zygomycete genus Lichtheimia (syn. Absidia pro parte, Mycocladus) consists of saprotrophic fungi inhabiting soil or dead plant material. Lichtheimia corymbifera (syn.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA prospective study was conducted to determine risk factors for fungal colonization, drug susceptibility, and association with invasive fungal infections (IFIs) in a neonatal unit. On admission and weekly thereafter, surveillance fungal cultures were taken from mouth, rectum, and trachea of neonates with expected stays of > 1 week. Fungal colonization was detected in 72 (12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDisseminated Trichosporon infection in neutropenic patients carries a poor prognosis. Clinical evidence on the use of voriconazole for this infection is limited. The authors report a case of Trichosporon asahii fungemia refractory to liposomal amphotericin B treatment in a boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which resolved after the addition of voriconazole.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe incidence of fungal peritonitis (FP) and the fungi that caused FP were evaluated in 422 patients treated with peritoneal dialysis. During an 11-year period, 804 episodes of peritonitis occurred, 46 (5.7%) of which were caused by fungi.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPediatr Infect Dis J
February 2002
Trichosporon asahii causes white piedra, an infection of hair shafts and onychomycosis in immunocompetent patients, as well as various localized or disseminated invasive infections in immunodeficient hosts. We describe a 26-week gestation 890-g vaginally delivered female neonate who had severe respiratory distress syndrome and on the sixth day of life developed Klebsiella pneumoniae sepsis. At the same time two blood cultures were positive for T.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOBJECTIVE: To analyze invasive Candida infections in pediatric patients and to examine the outcome of disease. METHODS: An observational prospective study was carried out of microbiologically documented cases of invasive candidosis in neonates, infants and children at Hippokration Hospital from December 1993 to July 1995. RESULTS: Thirty-nine cases of invasive candidosis (mainly candidemia and candiduria) occurred in 38 patients aged 3 days to 14 years, 21 (54%) having occurred in patients aged <1 month.
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