Navigating Trichosporon Asahii Infections in Pediatric Leukemia: First Reported Case in Central and Eastern Europe Case Report and Literature Review
Kamila Mozga, Kacper Ponikowski, Ewelina Wieczorek, Kacper Wrzosek, Rafał Burek, Paulina Deleszkiewicz, Katarzyna Karska, Monika Lejman, Joanna Zawitkowska · 2025
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Kamila Mozga and co-authors report a first-of-its-region fungal emergency in a 2025 case report and review. A fourteen-year-old girl being treated for T-cell leukemia in Poland developed a spreading infection by Trichosporon asahii, a yeast that shrugs off whole classes of antifungal drugs.
Fever, joint pain, and collapsing white counts were the opening signs; cultures from joint fluid and urine named the culprit. The team traces her difficult course and surveys the literature on this pathogen, whose mortality in immunocompromised patients is grim. Their message: suspect it early, because azole drugs must start before the infection scatters further.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kamila Mozga, Kacper Ponikowski, Ewelina Wieczorek, Kacper Wrzosek, Rafał Burek, Paulina Deleszkiewicz, Katarzyna Karska, Monika Lejman, Joanna Zawitkowska |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |