Fatal trichosporonosis is not related to tolerance to amphotericin B.

Mycoses

Division of Infectious Diseases, Vancouver General Hospital, British Columbia, Canada.

Published: April 1992

A case of disseminated trichosporonosis in a 45-year-old female suffering from acute lymphocytic leukaemia is reported. The patient died of that mycosis despite of therapy with amphotericin B for which the pathogen had been proven susceptible in vitro.

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