Successful outcome of disseminated Fusarium infection with skin localization treated with voriconazole and amphotericin B-lipid complex in a patient with acute leukemia.

نویسندگان

  • Isabelle Durand-Joly
  • Serge Alfandari
  • Zinnédine Benchikh
  • Marion Rodrigue
  • Ana Espinel-Ingroff
  • Benoit Catteau
  • Christophe Cordevant
  • Daniel Camus
  • Eduardo Dei-Cas
  • Francis Bauters
  • Laurence Delhaes
  • Stéphane De Botton
چکیده

A disseminated Fusarium oxysporum infection with skin localization was diagnosed in a woman with a relapse of B-acute leukemia during induction chemotherapy. The infection was refractory to amphotericin B-lipid complex alone but responded successfully when voriconazole was added.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of clinical microbiology

دوره 41 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003