Use of DNA sequencing analysis to confirm fungemia due to Trichosporon dermatis in a pediatric patient.

This is the first reported case of human disease caused by Tricosporon dermatis, an organism recently transferred to the genus Trichosporon from Cryptococcus and now confirmed to be a human pathogen.

Oropharyngeal candidiasis caused by non-albicans yeast in patients receiving external beam radiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer.

Purpose: To characterize non-albicans Candida oral infections in patients with head-and-neck cancer receiving external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with or without concurrent chemotherapy.

Methods And Materials: Thirty-seven patients with head-and-neck cancer received EBRT in 2.0-Gy daily fractions to a median dose of 60.