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An Unusual Case of Candida kefyr Fungemia in an Immunocompromised Patient

An immunocompromised patient with a known history of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) with right-sided hemiparesis of long duration, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hypertension presented with signs of rhabdomyolysis and later acute kidney injury (AKI). He subsequently developed Guillain Barre syndrome....

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Autores principales: Jyothi, Lakshmi, Reddy, Naveen P, Naaz, Shazia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8001216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33791183
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14138
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description An immunocompromised patient with a known history of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) with right-sided hemiparesis of long duration, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hypertension presented with signs of rhabdomyolysis and later acute kidney injury (AKI). He subsequently developed Guillain Barre syndrome. Initially, hemodialysis was followed by plasmapheresis. After hemodialysis, the patient presented with multiple episodes of vomiting and weakness of all limbs. A culture showed growth of Enterococcus faecalis, and on Day 6, a bloodstream infection with Candida kefyr and a urinary tract infection with Enterococcus faecalis were diagnosed. We report a rare case of bloodstream infection due to C. kefyr.
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spelling pubmed-80012162021-03-30 An Unusual Case of Candida kefyr Fungemia in an Immunocompromised Patient Jyothi, Lakshmi Reddy, Naveen P Naaz, Shazia Cureus Internal Medicine An immunocompromised patient with a known history of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) with right-sided hemiparesis of long duration, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hypertension presented with signs of rhabdomyolysis and later acute kidney injury (AKI). He subsequently developed Guillain Barre syndrome. Initially, hemodialysis was followed by plasmapheresis. After hemodialysis, the patient presented with multiple episodes of vomiting and weakness of all limbs. A culture showed growth of Enterococcus faecalis, and on Day 6, a bloodstream infection with Candida kefyr and a urinary tract infection with Enterococcus faecalis were diagnosed. We report a rare case of bloodstream infection due to C. kefyr. Cureus 2021-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8001216/ /pubmed/33791183 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14138 Text en Copyright © 2021, Jyothi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Jyothi, Lakshmi
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An Unusual Case of Candida kefyr Fungemia in an Immunocompromised Patient
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title_full An Unusual Case of Candida kefyr Fungemia in an Immunocompromised Patient
title_fullStr An Unusual Case of Candida kefyr Fungemia in an Immunocompromised Patient
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Case of Candida kefyr Fungemia in an Immunocompromised Patient
title_short An Unusual Case of Candida kefyr Fungemia in an Immunocompromised Patient
title_sort unusual case of candida kefyr fungemia in an immunocompromised patient
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8001216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33791183
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14138
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