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Disease candidiasis
Comorbidity C0027947|neutropenia
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PubMedID- 21486731 Among patients with malignant haematological diseases, the highest rates of invasive candida infections are found in patients with neutropenia due to induction chemotherapy for acute leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome and in recipients of allogeneic blood stem cell transplants in the early post-transplant phase and in periods of graft-versus-host disease (gvhd) [16,17].
PubMedID- 21143834 Thus, obtaining a microbiological diagnosis in deep tissue invasive infection, such as hepatosplenic candidiasis in patients with neutropenia, is based on ultrasound, computed tomography (ct) or magnetic resonance imaging (mri) [6,7].
PubMedID- 25398200 Clinical cases of disseminated candidiasis in patients with neutropenia or other conditions, where the function and numbers of leucocytes are compromised highlight the importance of innate immunity in the control of systemic fungal infections.

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