Abstract
Oral candidiasis due to azole-resistant Candida albicans is an increasing problem in patients with AIDS who received prolonged periods of fluconazole prophylaxis. Infection with C. albicans is also frequent in patients undergoing transplantation. However, azole resistance has not been appreciated as a major problem for these patients, presumably because they receive a relatively short duration of fluconazole prophylaxis. We describe a case of disseminated candidiasis due to fluconazole-resistant C. albicans in a patient following marrow transplantation. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with use of the C. albicans strain-specific Ca3 probe was performed on sequential isolates. Identical banding patterns were obtained, thereby confirming that a fluconazole-susceptible endogenous C. albicans acquired azole resistance during a brief exposure to the drug and subsequently caused disseminated infection. This observation raises questions regarding the incidence, significance, and mechanism of azole resistance in fungi causing infection in this population.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 908-910 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Clinical Infectious Diseases |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1997 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Received 5 November 1996; revised 25 March 1997. Grant support: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (training grant 2T32 A107044-21 to K.A.M. and grant RO1 DE-11367 to T.C.W.). Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Kieren A. Marr, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1124 Columbia Street M115, Seattle, Washington 98104.
