Successful treatment of Paecilomyces varioti infection in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease and a review of Paecilomyces species infections

Clin Infect Dis. 1992 May;14(5):1023-6. doi: 10.1093/clinids/14.5.1023.

Abstract

An 8-year-old boy who had chronic granulomatous disease developed a soft tissue infection of the right heel after riding on a motor scooter. Infection was insidious, and minor heel pain and fevers occurred only on the day interferon-gamma was injected. Soft tissue biopsy showed hyphal elements, and Paecilomyces varioti grew in culture. The infection was treated with amphotericin B for 7 weeks (total dose, 40 mg/kg) followed by 1 year of therapy with itraconazole (100 mg twice daily). Complete cure was achieved during the follow-up period of 10 months.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Child
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Granulomatous Disease, Chronic / complications*
  • Granulomatous Disease, Chronic / therapy
  • Heel
  • Humans
  • Interferon-gamma / therapeutic use
  • Itraconazole
  • Ketoconazole / analogs & derivatives
  • Ketoconazole / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Mycoses / drug therapy*
  • Mycoses / etiology
  • Paecilomyces / isolation & purification*
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Itraconazole
  • Amphotericin B
  • Interferon-gamma
  • Ketoconazole