Successful Treatment of Breakthrough Trichosporon asahii Fungemia with Voriconazole in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

We describe a 55-year-old man with acute myelogenous leukemia who developed breakthrough Trichosporon asahii fungemia during 5 days of micafungin treatment. Although the patient's clinical condition improved considerably after the start of voriconazole treatment, blood culture results remained...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical infectious diseases 2006-08, Vol.43 (4), p.e39-e41
Hauptverfasser:	Asada, Noboru, Uryu, Hidetaka, Koseki, Mihoko, Takeuchi, Masami, Komatsu, Masaru, Matsue, Kosei
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acute Disease Antifungal Agents - therapeutic use Aspergillosis - complications Aspergillosis - drug therapy Echinocandins Fungal infections Fungemia - drug therapy Humans Leukemia Leukemia, Myeloid - complications Lipopeptides Lipoproteins - therapeutic use Male Medical treatment Middle Aged Mycoses - complications Mycoses - drug therapy Mycoses - microbiology Older people Peptides, Cyclic - therapeutic use Pyrimidines - therapeutic use Triazoles - therapeutic use Trichosporon - isolation & purification Voriconazole
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