Cryptococcal fungemia in a neutropenic patient with AIDS while receiving caspofungin

Prashant Malhotra; Sanjiv S. Shah; Mark Kaplan; Joseph P. McGowan

doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2005.01.002

Cryptococcal fungemia in a neutropenic patient with AIDS while receiving caspofungin

Prashant Malhotra
, Sanjiv S. Shah
, Mark Kaplan
, Joseph P. McGowan

Infectious Diseases

Northwell Health System
New York University
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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Abstract

Empiric choice of anti-fungal therapy in febrile neutropenia should be based upon a host's susceptibility to specific fungal pathogens. We present a case of a patient with multiple risk factors for fungemia including HIV infection, Hodgkin's disease, corticosteroid use and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia who developed disseminated cryptococcal infection while receiving caspofungin.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e181-e183
Journal	Journal of Infection
Volume	51
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2005.01.002
State	Published - Oct 2005

Keywords

Caspofungin
Cryptococcus
HIV/AIDS
Neutropenia

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