Fungemia

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A radiologic syndrome after high dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation, with clinical and pathologic features of systemic candidiasis. 
  • Automated blood culture systems. 
  • Candida albicans and non-albicans bloodstream infections in adult and pediatric patients: comparison of mortality and costs. 
  • Candida bloodstream infection in neonates. 
  • Candida glabrata fungemia in transplant patients receiving voriconazole after fluconazole. 
  • Candidal mycetoma in the neonatal kidney. 
  • Candidemia in women with breast carcinoma treated with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Clinical importance of increased sensitivity of BacT/Alert FAN aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles. 
  • Comparative evaluation of Etest and sensititre yeastone panels against the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute M27-A2 reference broth microdilution method for testing Candida susceptibility to seven antifungal agents. 
  • Comparison of BACTEC MYCO/F LYTIC and WAMPOLE ISOLATOR 10 (lysis-centrifugation) systems for detection of bacteremia, mycobacteremia, and fungemia in a developing country. 
  • Comparison of Isolator 1.5 and BACTEC NR660 aerobic 6A blood culture systems for detection of fungemia in children. 
  • Comparison of caspofungin and amphotericin B for invasive candidiasis. 
  • Comparison of costs, length of stay, and mortality associated with Candida glabrata and Candida albicans bloodstream infections. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of BACTEC plus anaerobic/F to standard anaerobic/F as the anaerobic companion bottle to plus aerobic/F medium for culturing blood from adults. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic medium with BACTEC standard aerobic medium for culturing blood. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of VersaTREK and BacT/ALERT blood culture systems. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of bioMérieux VITAL and BACTEC NR-660 blood culture systems for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in adults. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of plastic and glass bottles of BacT/ALERT FA medium for culturing organisms from blood of adult patients. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of plastic versus glass bottles of BacT/ALERT PF medium for culturing blood from children. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of the BacT/ALERT FN and the standard anaerobic SN blood culture medium. 
  • Controlled clinical laboratory comparison of BACTEC plus aerobic/F resin medium with BacT/Alert aerobic FAN medium for detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled comparison of BacT/ALERT FAN aerobic medium and BATEC fungal blood culture medium for detection of fungemia. 
  • Controlled comparison of bioMérieux VITAL and BACTEC NR-660 systems for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in pediatric patients. 
  • Controlled comparison of original vented aerobic fan medium with new nonvented BacT/ALERT FA medium for culturing blood. 
  • Controlled comparison of the BACTEC high-blood-volume fungal medium, BACTEC Plus 26 aerobic blood culture bottle, and 10-milliliter isolator blood culture system for detection of fungemia and bacteremia. 
  • Controlled comparison of the BacT/Alert and BACTEC 660/730 nonradiometric blood culture systems. 
  • Controlled evaluation of 5 versus 10 milliliters of blood cultured in aerobic BacT/Alert blood culture bottles. 
  • Controlled evaluation of BacT/Alert standard aerobic and FAN aerobic blood culture bottles for detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled evaluation of BacT/alert standard anaerobic and FAN anaerobic blood culture bottles for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Cost savings with implementation of PNA FISH testing for identification of Candida albicans in blood cultures. 
  • Cutaneous cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients. 
  • Cytokine profiles of preterm neonates with fungal and bacterial sepsis. 
  • Delayed Diagnosis of Disseminated Cryptococcosis with Associated Meningoencephalitis in an Immunocompetent Septuagenarian Host. 
  • Detection of bloodstream infections in adults: how many blood cultures are needed? 
  • Diagnosis of fungal infection: new technologies for the mycology laboratory. 
  • Diagnostic microbiology updates. 
  • Disseminated Candida tropicalis in a patient with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis. 
  • Early and late onset sepsis in late preterm infants. 
  • Empirical therapy for neonatal candidemia in very low birth weight infants. 
  • Epidemiology of bloodstream infections in a bacille Calmette-Guérin-vaccinated pediatric population in Malawi. 
  • Excess costs of hospital care associated with neonatal candidemia. 
  • Fatal, disseminated Acremonium strictum infection in a neutropenic host. 
  • Fever and human immunodeficiency virus infection as sentinels for emerging mycobacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients >/=15 years old, Bangkok. 
  • Fluconazole and Candida krusei fungemia. 
  • Global distribution and outcomes for Candida species causing invasive candidiasis: results from an international randomized double-blind study of caspofungin versus amphotericin B for the treatment of invasive candidiasis. 
  • Hospital epidemiologists' and infection preventionists' opinions regarding hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia as a potential healthcare-associated infection metric. 
  • Impact of automatic infectious diseases consultation on the management of fungemia at a large academic medical center. 
  • Introduction. Issues concerning antifungal susceptibility testing. 
  • Late-onset bloodstream infections in hospitalized term infants. 
  • Long-term risk of hepatocellular carcinoma mortality in 23220 hospitalized patients treated with micafungin or other parenteral antifungals. 
  • Management of an Outbreak of Exophiala dermatitidis Bloodstream Infections at an Outpatient Oncology Clinic. 
  • Multicenter evaluation of a Candida albicans peptide nucleic acid fluorescent in situ hybridization probe for characterization of yeast isolates from blood cultures. 
  • Neonatal candidemia and end-organ damage: a critical appraisal of the literature using meta-analytic techniques. 
  • Neonatal candidiasis among extremely low birth weight infants: risk factors, mortality rates, and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 to 22 months. 
  • Neonatal fungal infections: when to treat? 
  • Opportunistic cutaneous fungal infections in the inpatient setting. 
  • Persistence of the same Candida albicans strain despite fluconazole therapy. Documentation by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. 
  • Pulmonary cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients: clinical relevance of serum cryptococcal antigen. 
  • Recovery of clinically important microorganisms from the BacT/Alert blood culture system does not require testing for seven days. 
  • Temporal Trends in Blood Stream Infection Isolates from Surgical Patients. 
  • The association of third-generation cephalosporin use and invasive candidiasis in extremely low birth-weight infants. 
  • The clinical and prognostic importance of positive blood cultures in adults. 
  • The clinical significance of positive blood cultures in the 1990s: a prospective comprehensive evaluation of the microbiology, epidemiology, and outcome of bacteremia and fungemia in adults. 
  • Treatment options for invasive fungal infections. 
  • Unique characteristics of cryptococcosis identified after death in patients with liver cirrhosis: comparison with concurrent cohort diagnosed antemortem. 
  • Unusual cause of superior vena cava syndrome diagnosed with transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Utility of paired BACTEC MYCO/F LYTIC blood culture vials for detection of bacteremia, mycobacteremia, and fungemia. 
  • Value of terminal subcultures for blood cultures monitored by BACTEC 9240. 
  • When to suspect fungal infection in neonates: A clinical comparison of Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis fungemia with coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Kiser-Arena Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases