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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2006, p. 3035-3036, Vol. 44, No. 8
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00620-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Catheter-Related Fungemia Due to Candida thermophila

Maskit Bar-Meir,1 Deanna A. Sutton,2 Brian Wickes,2 Cletus P. Kurtzman,3 Stewart Goldman,1 and Xiaotian Zheng1*

Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60614,1 University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229,2 National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, ARS, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois 616043

Received 22 March 2006/ Returned for modification 15 May 2006/ Accepted 31 May 2006

We report a case of bloodstream infection caused by Candida thermophila, a yeast not previously associated with human disease. The infection occurred in a 13-year-old boy with medulloblastoma who presented with 1 day of fever. Multiple blood cultures were positive for yeast. Removal of the catheter resulted in prompt resolution of the fever and sterilization of the blood cultures. The species was identified by sequencing domains 1 and 2 of the large subunit rRNA gene. Antifungal susceptibility testing was also performed.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2300 Children's Plaza, Box 53, Chicago, IL 60614. Phone: (773) 880-6910. Fax: (773) 880-4687. E-mail: x-zheng{at}northwestern.edu.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2006, p. 3035-3036, Vol. 44, No. 8
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00620-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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