Successful Outcome of Disseminated Fusarium Infection with Skin Localization Treated with Voriconazole and Amphotericin B-Lipid Complex in a Patient with Acute Leukemia

AUTOR(ES)

Durand-Joly, Isabelle

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

A disseminated Fusarium oxysporum infection with skin localization was diagnosed in a woman with a relapse of B-acute leukemia during induction chemotherapy. The infection was refractory to amphotericin B-lipid complex alone but responded successfully when voriconazole was added.

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