International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages e147-e149, February 2010

Catheter-related fungemia caused by Candida intermedia

  • Sheng-Yuan Ruan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Jung-Yien Chien

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yi-Chung Hou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Po-Ren Hsueh

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 23123456x5355.

Received 7 August 2008; received in revised form 3 February 2009; accepted 18 March 2009. published online 04 June 2009.

Corresponding Editor: Andy I.M. Hoepelman, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Summary 

Candida intermedia is rarely reported as a human pathogen. We report two cases of catheter-related fungemia caused by C. intermedia which were treated successfully with intravenous fluconazole and catheter removal. The isolates were identified by commercial biochemical methods, oligonucleotide array, and partial sequencing analysis of rRNA genes.

Keywords: Candida intermedia, Catheter-related infection, Fungemia

 

PII: S1201-9712(09)00151-9

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2009.03.015

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages e147-e149, February 2010

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