title: Disseminated Candida tropicalis in a patient with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis.
abstract: Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis is a heterogeneous group of immunodeficiencies associated with persistent candidal infections. Patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis are rarely associated with systemic infections caused by other fungi, but almost never by Candida. The authors report a case of a 16-year-old with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis who developed a fungemia with Candida tropicalis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. dixon013@mc.duke.edu
authors.forename: Terry C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Steinbach
authors.forename: Daniel K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Benjamin
authors.forename: Larry W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Laurie A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Myers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041022:Candida tropicalis; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000382:microbiology*; D002178:Candidiasis, Chronic Mucocutaneous / Q000150:complications*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D016469:Fungemia / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host