- 著者
- Takashi Yoshida Takuto Tachita Haruna Fujinami Yoshiko Oshima Hirokazu Sasaki Yoshiaki Marumo Tomoko Narita Asahi Ito Masaki Ri Shigeru Kusumoto Takashi Ishida Hirokazu Komatsu Shinsuke Iida
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.2082-18, (Released:2019-04-17)
- 参考文献数
- 27
- 被引用文献数
- 8
Infectious diseases, including those caused by fungi, remain important issues in patients receiving malignant lymphoma chemotherapy. We herein report a rare case of Exophiala dermatitidis fungemia during chemotherapy in a 67-year-old woman admitted to our hospital. She had a fever that could not be resolved despite antifungal therapy. Yeast-like fungi were detected in blood culture samples, but biochemical identification was difficult. E. dermatitidis, a black mold, was identified using time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The patient finally improved after her treatment was switched to voriconazole. Fungal infection is difficult to diagnose and treat, but this novel approach can improve patients' outcomes.