Catheter-related infections by Hansenula anomala in children

Scand J Infect Dis. 1995;27(1):85-7. doi: 10.3109/00365549509018982.

Abstract

During August and September, 1992, we experienced 4 cases of Hansenula anomala (H. anomala, synonym Pichia anomala) fungemia in immunocompromised patients. Two patients had been suffering from a malignant disease, 3 of them had received broad-spectrum antibiotics and a central venous catheter (CVC) had been inserted in all of them. H. anomala was isolated as the sole pathogen from all 4 patients. Three of them responded favorably to fluconazole after withdrawal of the catheter, but one failed. H. anomala should be considered as a possible cause of catheter-related infections.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Catheterization, Central Venous / adverse effects*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Fluconazole / therapeutic use
  • Fungemia / drug therapy
  • Fungemia / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host*
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Pichia* / drug effects
  • Pichia* / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Fluconazole