Increase in<i>Candida krusei</i>Infection among Patients with Bone Marrow Transplantation and Neutropenia Treated Prophylactically with Fluconazole

Abstract

In patients at high risk for disseminated candida infections, suppression of bacterial flora and the more common candida pathogens may permit some less pathogenic, but natively resistant candida species, such as C. krusei, to emerge as systemic pathogens.