• Rev Chilena Infectol · Dec 2005

    Case Reports

    [Disseminated fusariosis by Fusarium oxysporum in an adult patient with acute myeloid leukemia and severe febrile neutropenia].

    • Roberto Olivares, Jorge Alfaro, M Cristina Díaz, and Luis Thompson.
    • Infectología, Clínica Dávila. roc0107@yahoo.com
    • Rev Chilena Infectol. 2005 Dec 1;22(4):356-60.

    AbstractWe report the first case of disseminated fusariosis in an adult patient in Chile, with a hematologic neoplasia and chemotherapy that evolved with febrile prolonged neutropenia, refractory, treated with wide spectrum antibiotics and that developed a systemic infection with sinusal, cutaneous and pulmonary compromise by Fusarium oxysporum. He was refractory to antifungal treatment with amphotericin B deoxycholate and caspofungin that were administered in a sequential schedule. The fatal outcome of this patient was associated to persistent neutropenia and infection caused by a filamentous fungus usually resistant to antifungal therapy.

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