Two cases of subcutaneous Scedosporium apiospermum infection treated with voriconazole

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2003 Jul;9(7):750-3. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00596.x.

Abstract

Scedosporium apiospermum is a mold that is increasingly being recognized as an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients, and treatment is complicated by intrinsic resistance to several antifungal agents. In our hospital, two cases of S. apiospermum infection occurring within 2 weeks were successfully treated with voriconazole. Since both patients were infected with an uncommon pathogen, a search for a common nosocomial source was performed. As environmental cultures yielded no S. apiospermum, and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting showed that the patients' strains were genotypically unrelated, we considered a common nosocomial source of S. apiospermum to be unlikely.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Antifungal Agents / pharmacology*
  • DNA Fingerprinting
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycetoma / drug therapy*
  • Mycetoma / surgery
  • Pyrimidines / pharmacology*
  • Scedosporium / drug effects*
  • Scedosporium / genetics
  • Triazoles / pharmacology*
  • Voriconazole

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Pyrimidines
  • Triazoles
  • Voriconazole