FUNGEMIA DUE TO FUSARIUM SPP IN CANCER-PATIENTS

Authors
KRCMERY V JESENSKA Z SPANIK S GYARFAS J NOGOVA J BOTEK R MARDIAK J SUFLIARSKY J SISOLAKOVA J VANICKOVA M KUNOVA A STUDENA M TRUPL J
Citation
V. Krcmery et al., FUNGEMIA DUE TO FUSARIUM SPP IN CANCER-PATIENTS, The Journal of hospital infection, 36(3), 1997, pp. 223-228
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases
Journal title
The Journal of hospital infection → ACNP
ISSN journal
01956701
Volume
36
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
223 - 228
Database
ISI
SICI code
0195-6701(1997)36:3<223:FDTFSI>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Five cases of fungaemia due to Fusarium spp. in cancer patients are de scribed. Two were breakthrough cases, despite ongoing therapy with amp hotericin B. Three were caused by Fusarium solani, one by F. oxysporum and one by F. dimerum. Four patients died, three of them despite ther apy with amphotericin B for between 5-37 days. We describe only the se cond reported case of F. dimerum fungaemia. Since 1972, 93 cases of sy stemic infection with Fusarium spp. have been described: 43 had positi ve blood cultures and the overall mortality was 72%.