Candida utilis catheter-related bloodstream infection

Central venous catheter-related fungemia are increasing in the last years, also due to rare fungi. We report the case of a Candida utilis catheter-related bloodstream infection in a patient with metastatic carcinoma of the bladder and a long term totally implanted venous catheter. The diagnosis was...

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Autores principales: Scoppettuolo, Giancarlo, Donato, Concetta, De Carolis, Elena, Vella, Antonietta, Vaccaro, Luisa, La Greca, Antonio, Fantoni, Massimo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.10.003
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Sumario:Central venous catheter-related fungemia are increasing in the last years, also due to rare fungi. We report the case of a Candida utilis catheter-related bloodstream infection in a patient with metastatic carcinoma of the bladder and a long term totally implanted venous catheter. The diagnosis was done by paired blood cultures and differential time to positivity. The Candida species was rapidly identified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The patient was successfully treated with anidulafungine.

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