Systemic Candidiasis in an Apparently Immunocompetent Dog

Esophageal candidiasis in an immunocompetent girl.

BACKGROUND Infections of the esophagus are rare and most commonly seen in children with immune suppression resulting from malignancy, chronic metabolic or infectious disease, or immunosuppressive drug therapy. METHODS An 18-month-old girl on inhaled corticosteroid for bronchial asthma presented with coffee-ground emesis and melena. Upper endoscopy revealed yellow-white plaques scattered over ...

Disseminated invasive aspergillosis in an apparently immunocompetent host.

Aspergillosis is a spectrum of diseases caused by members of the genus Aspergillus that continues to pose a significant threat to immunocompromised, organ transplant, neutropenic and cancer patients. In view of increasing risk factors leading to invasive aspergillosis, it is imperative for clinicians to be familiar with the clinical presentation, diagnostic methods and management of the disease...

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.