Candida utilis catheter-related bloodstream infection
- Scoppettuolo, Giancarlo
- Donato, Concetta
- De Carolis, Elena
- Vella, Antonietta
- Vaccaro, Luisa
- La Greca, Antonio (ORCID:0000-0002-7587-7427)
- Fantoni, Massimo (ORCID:0000-0001-6913-8460)
Publication date
January 2014
DOI Publisher
Elsevier BV ISSN
2211-7539 Citation count (estimate)
3Abstract
Central venous catheter-related fungemia are increasing in the last years, also due to rare fungi. We report the case of a Candida utilis catheter-related bloodstream infection in a patient with metastatic carcinoma of the bladder and a long term totally implanted venous catheter. The diagnosis was done by paired blood cultures and differential time to positivity. The Candida species was rapidly identified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The patient was successfully treated with anidulafungine
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