Treatment of chronic pulmonary blastomycosis with caspofungin
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Christian Couture; Marc Ghannoum; Valery Lavergne; Bich Nguyen; Joelle Mardini
- Source
- Journal of medical microbiology. 60(Pt 12)
- Subject
- Microbiology (medical)
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Antifungal Agents
Itraconazole
Pulmonary blastomycosis
Pharmacology
Microbiology
Blastomycosis
chemistry.chemical_compound
Echinocandins
Lipopeptides
Caspofungin
Amphotericin B
polycyclic compounds
medicine
Humans
biology
Lung Diseases, Fungal
Blastomyces dermatitidis
business.industry
General Medicine
bacterial infections and mycoses
biology.organism_classification
Dermatology
Chronic pulmonary blastomycosis
chemistry
Current practice
Blastomyces
business
medicine.drug
- Language
- ISSN
- 1473-5644
Current practice guidelines recommend that pulmonary blastomycosis be treated with antifungal agents such as amphotericin B and itraconazole. Echinocandins are not recommended because of poor in vitro activity against Blastomyces dermatitidis and lack of supporting clinical data. We report a case of chronic pulmonary blastomycosis treated successfully with caspofungin.