A case of breakthrough Candida parapsilosis fungemia during micafungin therapy for a Candida glabrata bloodstream infection

Publication date: June 2017
Source:Medical Mycology Case Reports, Volume 16
Author(s): Yuta Norimatsu, Daiichi Morii, Asako Kogure, Taeko Hamanaka, Yoshihiro Kuwano, Takayuki Yokozawa, Toshimi Oda
We describe a case of breakthrough Candida parapsilosis fungemia in an 80-year-old woman with pyoderma gangrenosum and rheumatoid arthritis. C. parapsilosis was detected in blood culture while the patient was treated with micafungin for a Candida glabrata bloodstream infection. The breakthrough infection was successfully treated with liposomal amphotericin B.



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