glabrata have also been reported in Europe (19.6-27%), Saudi Arabia (9.5-17%) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (5%).19 Majority of strains in the current study were isolated from neonates and ICU patients which is similar to the results observed in New York.21 A higher number of cases with
fungaemia have also been reported in patients admitted to general paediatric and surgical wards of a hospital in Spain.17
We report a case of a 25-year-old lady who presented to our hospital with Guillain-BarrACopyright Syndrome with the subsequent development of refractory
fungaemia multi-organ failure and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy.
A first Portuguese epidemiological survey of
fungaemia in a university hospital.
Causing
fungaemia: pathogenicity and antifungal resistance.
are seborrhoeic dermatitis, pityrosporum folliculitis, dacryocystitis, confluent and reticulate papillomatosis, sebopsoriasis, onychomycosis and
fungaemia. Due to widely varying environmental factors, epidemiological and clinical profile of PV is expected to vary from one geographical location to other.
Malassezia pachydermatis
fungaemia in a neonatal intensive care unit.
HIV-1 infection has been established as a risk factor for
fungaemia in both children3 and adults.
Second, we only had a small number of patients with
fungaemia (n=7).
is in elderly patients and immunocompromised patients, who are at risk of developing a
fungaemia, although it is very rare.
Emergence of Candida tropicalis as the major cause of
fungaemia in India.
During 1988-90 20% of all episodes of bacteraemia and
fungaemia in our hospital occurred in patients aged 80 or older.
Nosocomial breakthrough
fungaemia during antifungal prophylaxis or empirical antifungal therapy in 41 cancer patients receiving antineoplastic chemotherapy: analysis of a etiology risk factors and outcome.
