A case report of fungemia due to Kodamaea ohmeri

BACKGROUND: Kodamaea ohmeri is a yeast is frequently mistaken for Candida, which belongs to the same family. This micro-organism has been reported to cause life-threatening infections in humans. CASE PRESENTATION: A 81-year-old woman developed a severe fungemic pulmonary infection due to Kodamaea oh...

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Autores principales: Diallo, K., Lefevre, B., Cadelis, G., Gallois, J. C., Gandon, F., Nicolas, M., Hoen, B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31262263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4208-8
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author Diallo, K.
Lefevre, B.
Cadelis, G.
Gallois, J. C.
Gandon, F.
Nicolas, M.
Hoen, B.
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description BACKGROUND: Kodamaea ohmeri is a yeast is frequently mistaken for Candida, which belongs to the same family. This micro-organism has been reported to cause life-threatening infections in humans. CASE PRESENTATION: A 81-year-old woman developed a severe fungemic pulmonary infection due to Kodamaea ohmeri that was identified from bronchoalveolar fluid and blood cultures, which is unusual in immunocompetent patients. Because K. ohmeri was first wrongly identified as Candida albicans, the patient inadequately received caspofungin, which was clinically ineffective, especially as the strain was resistant to echinocandins. Clinical cure was obtained after treatment was switched to voriconazole. CONCLUSIONS: An increasing number of serious infections due to K. ohmeri has been reported in the literature, but the correct identification of this micro-organism remains difficult.
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spelling pubmed-66042772019-07-12 A case report of fungemia due to Kodamaea ohmeri Diallo, K. Lefevre, B. Cadelis, G. Gallois, J. C. Gandon, F. Nicolas, M. Hoen, B. BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Kodamaea ohmeri is a yeast is frequently mistaken for Candida, which belongs to the same family. This micro-organism has been reported to cause life-threatening infections in humans. CASE PRESENTATION: A 81-year-old woman developed a severe fungemic pulmonary infection due to Kodamaea ohmeri that was identified from bronchoalveolar fluid and blood cultures, which is unusual in immunocompetent patients. Because K. ohmeri was first wrongly identified as Candida albicans, the patient inadequately received caspofungin, which was clinically ineffective, especially as the strain was resistant to echinocandins. Clinical cure was obtained after treatment was switched to voriconazole. CONCLUSIONS: An increasing number of serious infections due to K. ohmeri has been reported in the literature, but the correct identification of this micro-organism remains difficult. BioMed Central 2019-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6604277/ /pubmed/31262263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4208-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Diallo, K.
Lefevre, B.
Cadelis, G.
Gallois, J. C.
Gandon, F.
Nicolas, M.
Hoen, B.
A case report of fungemia due to Kodamaea ohmeri
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31262263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4208-8
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