Port Implantation-Related Bloodstream Infection Caused by Wickerhamomyces Myanmarensis: A Case Report Publisher



Aminasnafi A¹ ; Khodavaisy S^{2, 3} ; Moslem M⁴ ; Jouneghani ME⁵ ; Sarbandi F⁶ ; Falahatinejad M⁷ ; Bashardoust B² ; Badali H⁸ ; Kiasat N^{4, 5} Show Affiliations
Source: Current Medical Mycology Published:2023

Abstract

Background and Purpose: Wickerhamomyces myanmarensis is a new opportunistic yeast previously named Pichai myanmarensis, which belongs to the order Saccharomycetales. Since its discovery, one environmental isolate of W. myanmarensis has been reported from Myanmar, and one clinical sample from Iran. Case Report: We report a case of bloodstream infection related to an implantable venous access port. W. myanmarensis was isolated from patient's blood after chemotherapy, which was meant to control and heal T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. Broth dilution minimum inhibitory concentrations were performed according to the CLSI M27-A3 document. The patient recovered with intravenous voriconazole and was discharged with the recommended prescription of oral voriconazole as a maintenance drug. Conclusion: So far, only one case of W. myanmarensis fungemia has been reported in the world in 2019. This is the second case of bloodstream infection with this yeast from a patient undergoing chemotherapy in Iran. Copyright© 2023, Published by Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences on behalf of Iranian Society of Medical Mycology and Invasive Fungi Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) License (http://creativecommons.org/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.