Invasive infection due to Saprochaete capitata in a young patient with hematological malignancies

We report a case of invasive infection due to Saprochaete capitata in a patient with hematological malignancies after chemotherapy treatment and empiric antifungal therapy with caspofungin. Al-though severely immunocompromised the patient survived been treated with amphotericin B lipid complex associated with voriconazole. Key words: invasive infection, Saprochaete capitata, Geotrichum capitatum, hematological malig-nancies, antifungal susceptibility. Saprochaete capita is a saprophytic soil yeast (Pi-mentel et al., 2005) and may rarely cause invasive systemic infections in immunocompromised patients (Schuermans et al., 2012). This is an emerging pathogen and fungal infections have been reported in patients with hematological malig-nancies (Girmenia et al., 2005) and admitted to the inten-sive care unit (Gurgi et al., 2011)