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Pulmonary candidiasis in cystic fibrosis
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|July 1, 1979
Abstract:
A child with cystic fibrosis and asthma developed pulmonary candidiasis. Predisposing factors in this patient were prolonged antibiotic therapy, high-dose corticosteroids, and intravenous catherisation. A diagnosis was made by lung puncture and confirmed by rapid response to 5-fluorocytosine.