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Central venous catheter-related Rhodotorula rubra fungemia
Authors:J.-W. Chung  B.-N. Kim  Y. S. Kim
Affiliation:(1) Division of Infectious Diseases, Asan Medical Center, Poongnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea Tel. +82-2-3010-3303; Fax +82-2-3010-6970 e-mail: yskim@amc.seoul.kr, KR
Abstract:
With the increased use of indwelling central venous catheters, increasing numbers of cases of Rhodotorula fungemia have been observed in patients with neoplasia and neutropenia. In most patients with catheter-related Rhodotorula fungemia, the condition has been treated with broadspectrum antibiotics. We report two cases of central venous catheter-related Rhodotorula rubra fungemia that occurred in patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia. Both patients were in a state of neutropenia. One patient was treated with amphotericin B and his central venous catheter was removed, but he died of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia. The other patient was treated with amphotericin B and discharged, with a central venous catheter, after recovery from neutropenia. Although the management of catheter-related Rhodotorula fungemia infections remains controversial, resolution of the underlying disease is more important than catheter removal for recovery from Rhodotorula rubra fungemia. Received: August 22, 2001 / Accepted: October 8, 2001
Keywords:Rhodotorula rubra  Fungemia  Catheter
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