[Systemic chronic candidiasis following typhlitis caused by Candida albicans]

Typhlitis is an infrequent infectious complication which may appear during a period of intense granulocytopenia, generally in patients with acute leukemia. The most common causal germs are Gram negative bacilli although the importance of Candida sp. as an etiologic agent of this disease is ever more frequent. The case of a 14 years old patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who, after chemotherapy treatment, presented typhlitis by Candida albicans followed by chronic systemic candidiasis (CSC) is described. The role that Candida albicans may play in some cases of typhlitis is discussed as is the relation between the appearance of typhlitis and the posterior development of CSC.