"Fungemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The presence of fungi circulating in the blood. Opportunistic fungal sepsis is seen most often in immunosuppressed patients with severe neutropenia or in postoperative patients with intravenous catheters and usually follows prolonged antibiotic therapy.
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D016469
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.757.360 C01.703.492.625 C23.550.470.790.500.360
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fungemia" by people in Profiles.
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Civitarese AM, Ruggieri E, Walz JM, Mack DA, Heard SO, Mitchell M, Lilly CM, Landry KE, Ellison RT. RE: Preventability of hospital onset bacterermia and fungemia: A pilot study of potential healthcare-associated infection outcome measure, by Dantes et al (2019). Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 10; 40(10):1209-1210.
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Cevasco M, Borzecki AM, O'Brien WJ, Chen Q, Shin MH, Itani KM, Rosen AK. Validity of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator "central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections". J Am Coll Surg. 2011 Jun; 212(6):984-90.
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McGee WT, Tereso GJ. Successful treatment of Candida krusei infection with caspofungin acetate: a new antifungal agent. Crit Care Med. 2003 May; 31(5):1577-8.
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McQuillen DP, Zingman BS, Meunier F, Levitz SM. Invasive infections due to Candida krusei: report of ten cases of fungemia that include three cases of endophthalmitis. Clin Infect Dis. 1992 Feb; 14(2):472-8.