Disseminated Candida tropicalis in a patient with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis

South Med J. 2004 Aug;97(8):788-90. doi: 10.1097/00007611-200408000-00024.

Abstract

Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis is a heterogeneous group of immunodeficiencies associated with persistent candidal infections. Patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis are rarely associated with systemic infections caused by other fungi, but almost never by Candida. The authors report a case of a 16-year-old with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis who developed a fungemia with Candida tropicalis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Candida tropicalis*
  • Candidiasis / microbiology*
  • Candidiasis, Chronic Mucocutaneous / complications*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Fungemia / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host