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Management of congenital cutaneous candidiasis in a healthy term baby: A case report

The management of congenital cutaneous candidiasis in a healthy term neonate of normal birth weight is unclear. Often, healthy term neonates undergo extensive evaluation followed by systemic treatment, which may not be clinically warranted. Here, we present a case of a healthy term neonate with cong...

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Autores principales: Colantonio, Sophia, Hedin, Erin, Li, Heidi Oi-Yee, Gavigan, Geneviève
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6740067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31588361
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19876707
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description The management of congenital cutaneous candidiasis in a healthy term neonate of normal birth weight is unclear. Often, healthy term neonates undergo extensive evaluation followed by systemic treatment, which may not be clinically warranted. Here, we present a case of a healthy term neonate with congenital cutaneous candidiasis, whose work-up was minimally invasive and was successfully treated with one oral dose of antifungals and topical antifungals, as well as a review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-67400672019-10-03 Management of congenital cutaneous candidiasis in a healthy term baby: A case report Colantonio, Sophia Hedin, Erin Li, Heidi Oi-Yee Gavigan, Geneviève SAGE Open Med Case Rep JCMS Case Report The management of congenital cutaneous candidiasis in a healthy term neonate of normal birth weight is unclear. Often, healthy term neonates undergo extensive evaluation followed by systemic treatment, which may not be clinically warranted. Here, we present a case of a healthy term neonate with congenital cutaneous candidiasis, whose work-up was minimally invasive and was successfully treated with one oral dose of antifungals and topical antifungals, as well as a review of the literature. SAGE Publications 2019-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6740067/ /pubmed/31588361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19876707 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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