A case of generalized candidiasis with multi-focal liver damage in the practice of an infectious disease doctor

Abstract

The article presents a rare clinical case of generalized candidiasis with the development of multi-focal liver damage in a patient without signs of immunodeficiency. The stages of complex differential diagnostic search in the practice of an infectious disease doctor are described.

Keywords:multifocal hepatic involvement, disseminated candidiasis, Candida spp. growth from bile

Funding. The study was not sponsored.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest

Contribution. Patient monitoring and treatment, the collection and processing of the material, writing a text - Davydova I.V.; patient monitoring, editing and approving the final version of the article - Timchenko O.L.; patient monitoring and treatment -Popova T.I.

For citation: Davydova I.V., Timchenko O.L., Popova T.I. A case of generalized candidiasis with multi-focal liver damage in the practice of an infectious disease doctor. Infektsionnye bolezni: novosti, mneniya, obuchenie [Infectious Diseases: News, Opinions, Training]. 2020; 9 (4): С. 126-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33029/2305-3496-2020-9-4-126-130 (in Russian)

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CHIEF EDITOR
Aleksandr V. Gorelov
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MD, Head of Infection Diseases and Epidemiology Department of the Scientific and Educational Institute of Clinical Medicine named after N.A. Semashko ofRussian University of Medicine, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Department of Childhood Diseases, Clinical Institute of Children's Health named after N.F. Filatov, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director for Research, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Rospotrebnadzor (Moscow, Russian Federation)

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