Catheter-related fungemia caused by Candida intermedia

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

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.

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

Keywords: Candida intermedia, Catheter-related infection, Fungemia

a Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan

b Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

c 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

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PII: S1201-9712(09)00151-9

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2009.03.015

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