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Original Article
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Korean J Med. 2008;74(5):566-569.
- 증례 : 소고기 생식후 발생한 Yarrowia lipolytica 혈증 1예
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강기운, 윤희정, 정성희, 조성훈, 김호용, 유영욱
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- A case of Yarrowia lipolytica fungemia after raw beef ingestion
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Ki-Woon Kang, Hee Jung Yoon, Sung Hee Jung, Soung Hoon Cho, Ho Yong Kim, Young-Wook Yoo
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Cardiology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Yeungnam University Hospital1
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- Abstract
- 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.
Keywords :Yarrowia lipolytica, Fungemia
