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KMID : 0882420080740050566
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Korean Journal of Medicine
2008 Volume.74 No. 5 p.566 ~ p.569
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A case of Yarrowia lipolytica fungemia after raw beef ingestion
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Kang Ki-Woon
Yoon Hee-Jung
Jung Sung-Hee
Yoo Young-Wook
Kim Ho-Yong
Cho Soung-Hoon
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Abstract
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Candida lipolytica is also called Yarrowia lipolytica, and this is now microbiologically classified as a member of the Yarrowia genus. Y. lipolytica is a rare opportunistic pathogen that was first isolated in 1976 from a patient with traumatic ocular candidiasis. Five cases of infant patients were reported in 2000 in Korea for the first time, and then in 2001 a case was reported from an AML patient. No more cases have been reported since then. The authors experienced the case of a patient with blood culture positivity for Y. lipolytica and this patient had a previous history of raw beef ingestion and long term antibiotics therapy. Thus, we report on this case along with a review of the literature.
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KEYWORD
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Yarrowia lipolytica, Fungemia
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