Systemic Fusarium nygamai infection in a patient with lymphoblastic non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma
- 1 March 1996
- Vol. 39 (3-4) , 121-123
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0507.1996.tb00113.x
Abstract
We report the case history of a 35-year-old male patient with lymphoblastic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who acquired a systemic infection with Fusarium nygamai during the granulocytopenic phase of cytostatic treatment. The patient survived this infection after haematological recovery and treatment with intravenous amphotericin B (total dose 543 mg). Subsequent chemotherapy courses were not complicated by fungal infections. A recent trip to Egypt and severe chemotherapy-induced mucositis were probably the major causes of this severe infection.Keywords
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