Invasive fusariosis in acute leukaemia patients-An outbreak in the haematology ward.
Mycoses
; 66(8): 705-710, 2023 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Fusarium, a common fungus, emerges as a pathogen in severely immunocompromised patients. We present a series of patients who developed invasive fusariosis (IF) during admission to an acute leukaemia ward an outbreak of 12 cases in June and July 2018, followed by four sporadic cases until 2021. No case was reported earlier. All patients were clustered in the same location with indoor air and water installations found to be contaminated with Fusarium spp. thus a nosocomial outbreak was assumed. Following the water installation replacement, the number of Fusarium cases dramatically dropped to one or two isolated instances per year in the same location. All 16 patients had acute leukaemia and developed IF during severe neutropenia following induction therapy. IF diagnosis was based on positive blood cultures (14 patients) and/or on tissue biopsies (3 patients). The median time from admission to the IF onset was 20 days, and from the first day of severe neutropenia (≤500/mm3) was 11.5 days. All patients were febrile, eight had moderate-to-severe myalgias, eight had respiratory involvements lung lesions and/or sinusitis and seven had characteristic skin lesions. Follow-up 12 out of 16 (75%) were alive on Day 90; nine out of 15 (60%) were alive on Month 6. All with intractable neutropenia died. In severely neutropenic febrile patients, the triad of respiratory involvement/skin lesions/severe myalgia may suggest Fusarium aetiology. The ability to recover from neutropenia is critical to surmount IF. The indoor environment in immunocompromised dedicated settings must be constantly controlled.
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Leucemia Mieloide Aguda
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Fusariosis
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Fusarium
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Hematología
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Neutropenia
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Humans
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2023
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