TY - JOUR AU - Y Myoken, AU - T Kyo, AU - M Fujihara, AU - T Sugata, AU - Y Mikami, PY - 2004/03/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Clinical significance of breakthrough fungemia caused by azole-resistant Candida tropicalis in patients with hematologic malignancies JF - Haematologica JA - haematol VL - 89 IS - 3 SE - Letters to the Editor DO - 10.3324/%x UR - https://haematologica.org/article/view/3021 SP - 378-380 AB - A 5-year retrospective analysis of fungemia in patients with hematologic malignancies revealed that four patients, who received fluconazole and itraconazole during neutropenia, developed breakthrough candidemia due to azole-resistant Candida tropicalis isolates. This observation suggests that causative organisms of candidemia in neutropenic patients receiving azoles should be suspected of being azole-resistant. ER -