Systemic Candidiasis in a Dog, Developing Spondylitis

Systemic Candidiasis in Infancy

Isacson, M., Noah, Z., Faber, J., Herishano, Y., and Gottfried, L. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 954. Use of 5-fluorocytosine in systemic candidiasis in infancy. Three cases of systemic candidiasis were successfully treated with 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC), an antifungal agent. The fungaemia developed during continuous intravenous alimentation for intestinal malabsorption. The diagn...

Systemic neonatal candidiasis.

Forty-five cases of systemic neonatal candidiasis were diagnosed over a 9-year period in a neonatal intensive care unit; 42 infants weighted less than 1.5 kg. All had been very ill with preceding bacterial sepsis and other complications of low birthweight. Where treatment was instituted the mortality was low (4 out of 39 dying) and complications of treatment were transitory. We therefore recomm...

Neonatal systemic candidiasis.

Neonatal systemic candidiasis.

Ten babies who required neonatal intensive care developed systemic candidiasis. Eight were extremely preterm (28 weeks' gestation or less) and all received prolonged ventilation, multiple courses of broad spectrum antibiotics, and intravenous hyperalimentation. Diagnosis was established by culture of yeasts from suprapubic urine specimens; venous blood cultures proved unreliable. Initial treatm...

Diffuse cutaneous candidiasis in a dog. Diagnosis by PCR-REA.

The authors describe a clinical case of cutaneous candidiasis in a dog with dermatological lesions, characterized by persistent alopecia, crusts, ulcers and scales. Predisposing factors such as the use of corticosteroids, the concomitan presence of an autoimmune disease (pemphigus foliaceus) and an infection of ehrlichiosis caused by Ehrlichia canis were observed. Histopathological findings inc...