Invasive Acremonium strictum infection in a bone marrow transplant recipient

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2006 Mar;25(3):273-5. doi: 10.1097/01.inf.0000202107.73095.ad.

Abstract

We describe an invasive Acremonium strictum infection in a 9-year-old debilitated bone marrow transplant recipient. Outcome was successful, despite resistance to the amphotericin B that was initially administered. A. strictum was isolated from bone and urine cultures. We summarize data on 15 opportunistic invasive infections caused by Acremonium in pediatric hosts reported thus far in the English language literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acremonium / classification
  • Acremonium / drug effects
  • Acremonium / isolation & purification*
  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mycoses / drug therapy*
  • Mycoses / microbiology
  • Opportunistic Infections / drug therapy*
  • Opportunistic Infections / microbiology
  • Osteomyelitis / drug therapy*
  • Osteomyelitis / microbiology
  • Pyrimidines / therapeutic use
  • Tibia / microbiology
  • Triazoles / therapeutic use
  • Urine / microbiology
  • Voriconazole

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Pyrimidines
  • Triazoles
  • Voriconazole