Disseminated Candida tropicalis in a patient with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis.
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.
Dixon
Terry C
TC
Department of Pediatrics, the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. dixon013@mc.duke.edu
Steinbach
William J
WJ
Benjamin
Daniel K
DK
Williams
Larry W
LW
Myers
Laurie A
LA
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