Catheter-related fungemia due to Candida thermophila

Maskit Bar-Meir; Deanna A. Sutton; Brian Wickes; Cletus P. Kurtzman; Stewart Goldman; Xiaotian Zheng

doi:10.1128/JCM.00620-06

Catheter-related fungemia due to Candida thermophila

Maskit Bar-Meir, Deanna A. Sutton, Brian Wickes, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Stewart Goldman, Xiaotian Zheng^*

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Abstract

We report a case of bloodstream infection caused by Candida thermophila, a yeast not previously associated with human disease. The infection occurred in a 13-year-old boy with medulloblastoma who presented with 1 day of fever. Multiple blood cultures were positive for yeast. Removal of the catheter resulted in prompt resolution of the fever and sterilization of the blood cultures. The species was identified by sequencing domains 1 and 2 of the large subunit rRNA gene. Antifungal susceptibility testing was also performed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3035-3036
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume	44
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00620-06
State	Published - Aug 2006
Externally published	Yes

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