Catheter-related candidemia caused by <i>Candida lipolytica</i> in a child with tubercular meningitis

• Main Authors: Agarwal Santwana (Author), Thakur Kamlesh (Author), Kanga Anil (Author), Singh Gagandeep (Author), Gupta Poonam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<i>Candida lipolytica </i>is weakly pathogenic yeast, which is rarely isolated from the blood. We recovered this species from repeated blood samples and in the central venous catheter in a debilitated pediatric patient of tubercular meningitis. Identity was established on the basis of co...