Atıcı Serkan, Soysal Ahmet, Karadeniz Cerit Kıvılcım, Yılmaz Şerife, Aksu Burak, Kıyan Gürsu, Bakır Mustafa
Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Medical School, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical School, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Med Mycol Case Rep. 2017 Feb 22;15:33-35. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.02.002. eCollection 2017 Mar.
Although is usually a non-pathogenic fungus, in rare occasions it can cause invasive infection in children. We present the case of an 8-year-old patient in pediatric surgical intensive care unit who developed fungemia following probiotic treatment containing . Caspofungin was not effective in this case and he was treated with amphotericin B. We want to emphasize that physicians should be careful about probiotic usage in critically ill patients.
虽然通常是一种非致病性真菌,但在极少数情况下,它可导致儿童发生侵袭性感染。我们报告一例8岁患儿的病例,该患儿在儿科外科重症监护病房接受含有的益生菌治疗后发生了真菌血症。在该病例中,卡泊芬净无效,他接受了两性霉素B治疗。我们想强调的是,医生在危重症患者使用益生菌时应谨慎。