Case Report

Disseminated Candida tropicalis in a Patient with Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis

Authors: Terry C. Dixon, MD, PHD, William J. Steinbach, MD, Daniel K. Benjamin, Jr, MD, MPH, PHD, Larry W. Williams, MD, Laurie A. Myers, MD

Abstract

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 with Candida tropicalis.

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