We are reporting the case of a 37-year-old immunocompetent patient who presented with anterior chest wall swelling, jaw swelling and pain, back pain, night sweats, and unintentional weight loss. He underwent mediastinoscopy with lymph node biopsy, which revealed caseating and noncaseating granuloma and special stains positive for acid-fast bacteria. Cultures…
Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis is a heterogeneous group of immunodeficiencies associated with persistent candidal infections. Patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis are rarely associated with systemic infections caused by other fungi, but almost never by Candida. The authors report a case of a 16-year-old with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis who developed a fungemia…
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