Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment

Probiotics are commonly prescribed as an adjuvant in the treatment of antibiotic-associated diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile. We report the case of an immunocompromised 73-year-old patient on chemotherapy who developed Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia in a central venous cath...

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Autores principales: Appel-da-Silva, Marcelo C., Narvaez, Gabriel A., Perez, Leandro R.R., Drehmer, Laura, Lewgoy, Jairo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28794958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.07.007
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author Appel-da-Silva, Marcelo C.
Narvaez, Gabriel A.
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Drehmer, Laura
Lewgoy, Jairo
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description Probiotics are commonly prescribed as an adjuvant in the treatment of antibiotic-associated diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile. We report the case of an immunocompromised 73-year-old patient on chemotherapy who developed Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia in a central venous catheter during treatment of antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis with the probiotic Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii. Fungemia was resolved after interruption of probiotic administration without the need to replace the central venous line.
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spelling pubmed-55373952017-08-09 Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment Appel-da-Silva, Marcelo C. Narvaez, Gabriel A. Perez, Leandro R.R. Drehmer, Laura Lewgoy, Jairo Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Probiotics are commonly prescribed as an adjuvant in the treatment of antibiotic-associated diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile. We report the case of an immunocompromised 73-year-old patient on chemotherapy who developed Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia in a central venous catheter during treatment of antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis with the probiotic Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii. Fungemia was resolved after interruption of probiotic administration without the need to replace the central venous line. Elsevier 2017-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5537395/ /pubmed/28794958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.07.007 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment
title Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment
title_full Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment
title_fullStr Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment
title_full_unstemmed Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment
title_short Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment
title_sort saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537395/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.07.007
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