Central venous catheter infection by Aspergillus fumigatus in a patient with B-type non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 202-204

  Berner, Reinhard ^a   Sauter, Siegfried ^a   Michalski, Yvonne ^a   Niemeyer, Charlotte M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

central venous catheter associated infection by Aspergillus fumigatus; hematopoietic regeneration; invasive aspergillosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0029812078     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199609)27:3<202::AID-MPO13>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Denning DW, Stevens DA: Antifungal and surgical treatment of invasive aspergillosis: Review of 2,121 published cases. Rev Infect Dis 12: 1147-1201, 1990.
2. Fisher BD, Armstrong D, Yu D, Gold JWM: Invasive aspergillosis. Progress in early diagnosis and treatment. Am J Med 71: 571-577, 1981.
3. Pennigton JE: Aspergillus pneumonia in hematologic malignancy. Arch Intern Med 137: 769-771, 1977.
4. Young RC, Bennett JE, Vogel CL, DeVita VT: Aspergillosis. The spectrum of the disease in 98 patients. Medicine (Baltimore) 49: 147-173, 1970.
5. Degregorio MW, See WMF, Linker CA, Jacobs RA, Riss CA: Fungal infections in patients with acute leukemia. Am J Med 73: 543-548, 1982.
6. Klimowski LL, Rotstein C, Cummings KM, et al: Incidence of nosocomial aspergillosis in patients with leukemia over a twenty-year period. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 10:299-305, 1989.
7. Mirsky HS, Cuttner J: Fungal infection in acute leukemia. Cancer 30: 348-352, 1972.
8. Peterson PK, McGlave P, Ramsay NKC, et al: A prospective study of infectious diseases following bone marrow transplantation: Emergence of Aspergillus and cytomegalovirus as the major causes of mortality. Infect Control 4: 81-89, 1983.
9. Grerson SL, Talbot GH, Hurwitz S, Strom BL, Lusk EJ, Cassileth PA: Prolonged granulocytopenia: The major risk factor for invasive pulmonary Aspergillus in patients with acute leukemia. Ann Intern Med 100: 345-351, 1984.
10. Kumar A, Gera R, Kulkarni R: Polyfungal systemic infections in pediatric oncology patients. Am J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 12: 331-335, 1990.
11. Ludwig S, Ludwig L, Farber I, Wutzler P, Straube E, Koch H, Hermann J, Fuchs D, Zintl F: Infections after bone marrow transplantation in childhood. Kinderärztl Prax 60: 119-123, 1992.
12. Rajendran C, Basu TK, Baby A, Kumari S, Verghese T: Incidence and significance of opportunistic fungi in leukemia patients in India. Mycopathologica 119: 83-87, 1992.
13. Roux JP, Koussa A, Cajot MA, Marquette F, Goullard L, Gosselin B, Pol A, Warembourg H, Soots G: Primary Aspergillus endocarditis. Apropos of a case and review of the international literature. Ann Chir 46: 110-115, 1992.
14. Schonheyder H, Hoffman S, Jensen HE, Hansen BF, Franzmann MB: Aspergillus fungaemia an myocarditis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. APMIS 100: 605-608, 1992.
15. Bogner JR, Luftl S, Middeke M, Spengel F: Successful drug therapy in Aspergillus endocarditis. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 115: 1833-1837, 1990.
16. Zarabi MC, Salmassi S: Antemortem diagnosis of systemic aspergillosis: Ten-year review and report of a case. South Med J 77: 584-588, 1984.
17. Gonzalez-Crussi F, Mirkin LD, Wyllie RM, Escobedo M: Acute disseminated aspergillosis during the neonatal period. Report of an instance in a 14-day-old infant. Clin Pediatr Phila 18: 137-138, 1979.
18. Ben-Rejeb A, Boubaker S, Turki I, Massaoudi L, Chibani M, Khouja H: Placental aspergillosis: Myth or reality? Apropos of a case with fetal death in utero. J Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod Paris 22: 85-89, 1993.
19. Denning DW, Williams AH: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis diagnosed by blood culture and successfully treated. Br J Dis Chest 81: 300-304, 1987.
20. Allo MD, Miller J, Townsend T, Cissy T: Primary cutaneous aspergillosis associated with Hickman intravenous catheters. N Engl J Med 317: 1105-1108.