Cryptococcal fungemia in a neutropenic patient with AIDS while receiving caspofungin - 15/08/11
Doi : 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.01.002
Prashant Malhotra a, Sanjiv S. Shah a, Mark Kaplan a, b, Joseph P. McGowan a, c, ⁎ 
a North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY, USA
b New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
c Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
*Corresponding author. Address: Division of Infectious Diseases, North Shore University Hospital, 300 Community Drive, Manhasset, New York 11030, USA. Tel.: +1 516 562 4280; fax: +1 516 562 2626.
Abstract |
Empiric choice of anti-fungal therapy in febrile neutropenia should be based upon a host’s susceptibility to specific fungal pathogens. We present a case of a patient with multiple risk factors for fungemia including HIV infection, Hodgkin’s disease, corticosteroid use and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia who developed disseminated cryptococcal infection while receiving caspofungin.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : HIV/AIDS, Cryptococcus, Caspofungin, Neutropenia
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The British Infection Society. Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS. Tous droits réservés.
Vol 51 - N° 3
P. e181-e183 - octobre 2005 Retour au numéro
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