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Successful treatment of C. auris shunt infection with intraventricular caspofungin

Tanu Singhal, Abhaya Kumar, Prashant S. Borade, Sweta Shah, Rajeev Soman

Medical Mycology Case Reports · 2018 · 27 citations · 12 references

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. Systemic therapy with echinocandin and flucytosine failed. Fortunately, administration of daily intraventricular caspofungin 10 mg for 10 days in conjunction with systemic voriconazole resulted in both clinical and microbiological cure.

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