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Prevalence of Fungemia in People with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]

Microorganisms
Prior to the introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART), people with HIV (PWH) had high risk of fungemia. No systematic review has assessed the prevalence of fungemia in PWH after the introduction of combination ART in 1996.
Asta Maria Blom Nielsen, Kristiana Alexandrova Nikolova, Tea Nynne Sanders, Ask Bock, Moises Alberto Suarez-Zdunek, Susanne Dam Nielsen   +5 more
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First Report of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Infection due to Cyberlindnera fabianii [PDF]

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2015
Fungal infections in the central nervous system (CNS) are associated with significant morbidity and death. Transient fungemia in immunocompetent patients without any other risk factors for fungemia has been suggested as a possible mechanism that may lead
Jonathan Baghdadi, Peera Hemarajata, Romney Humphries, Theodoros Kelesidis   +3 more
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Fungemia due to Aureobasidium pullulans

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2022
Aureobasidium pullulans is a yeast-like dematiaceous fungus ubiquitous in nature. It is a rare cause of skin and soft tissue infection, peritonitis, and catheter-related fungemia in certain human hosts. We report a case of recurrent A. pullulans catheter-
Jorge Verdecia, Christopher A. Jankowski, Meredith L. Reynolds, Yvette McCarter, Malleswari Ravi   +4 more
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii fungemia following probiotic treatment

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2017
Probiotics are commonly prescribed as an adjuvant in the treatment of antibiotic-associated diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile. We report the case of an immunocompromised 73-year-old patient on chemotherapy who developed Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...
Marcelo C Appel-Da-Silva, Leandro Reus Rodrigues Perez   +1 more
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Investigation of a nosocomial outbreak of fungemia caused by Candida pelliculosa (Pichia anomala) in a Korean tertiary care center

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, 2018
Background: Candida pelliculosa is a rare pathogen of fungemia. There have been a few nosocomial outbreaks of C. pelliculosa fungemia in nurseries and pediatric intensive care units (ICU), hematologic units, and surgical ICU. We describe an epidemiologic
Jiwon Jung, Ji-Hun Lim, Joseph Jeong
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Scheffersomyces spartinae Fungemia among Pediatric Patients, Pakistan, 2020–2024 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Prevalence of emerging fungal infections is increasing, particularly among immunocompromised persons, children, and older persons. We report 108 cases of Scheffersomyces spartinae infection in pediatric patients from Karachi and other cities in Pakistan,
Kauser Jabeen, Joveria Farooqi, Lacy M. Simons, Judd F. Hultquist, Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, Charlesnika T. Evans, Erica M. Hartmann, Mohammad Hanif, Zahra Hasan, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Javaria Ashraf, Hassan Ghayas, Sadaf Zaka, Noureen Saeed, Sayed Ali Raza Shah Bukhari, Mehreen Arshad, Larry K. Kociolek, Sameer J. Patel, Rumina Hasan, Egon A. Ozer   +19 more
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Scedosporium prolificans Fungemia [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 1998
Fungemia due to Scedosporium prolificans is described in a young woman with a relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Several days after starting reinduction chemotherapy, the patient presented with fever, neutropenia and blood cultures showing fungi on Gram stain.
Sameer Elsayed, Robert Lannigan, Ian Chin-Yee   +2 more
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Increased prevalence of fungemia in Medina, Saudi Arabia

Frontiers in Epidemiology, 2023
BackgroundThe prevalence of fungal infection is increasing globally due to an increase in the immunocompromised and aging population. We investigated epidemiological changes in fungemia in one of the major centers in Medina over seven years period with ...
Aiah M. Khateb, Fadwa S. Alofi, Abdullah Z. Almutairi   +2 more
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Three Successfully Treated Cases of Lodderomyces elongisporus Fungemia: Case Reports and a Review of the Literature

Microorganisms, 2023
Fungemia is a fatal systemic infection that can occur in immunocompromised patients. Despite that, antifungal stewardship is spreading widely, but the mortality rate is extremely high, showing 40–60%.
Nobuhiro Asai, Yuichi Shibata, Akiko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Suematsu, Atsuko Yamada, Tomoko Ohno, Daisuke Sakanashi, Yuzuka Kawamoto, Narimi Miyazaki, Isao Koita, Hideo Kato, Mao Hagihara, Hirotoshi Ohta, Hiroshige Mikamo   +13 more
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Characteristics of fungemia in a peruvian referral center: 5-year retrospective analysis

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2020
Retrospective descriptive study carried out to determine the characteristics of fungemia in 285 cancer patients hospitalized from 2012 to 2016 at the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas (INEN).
Freddy Villanueva, Janet Veliz, Karol Canasa Calvo, Esther Bellido, Shirley Martell, Sherly Ortega, Ines Cajamarca   +6 more
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