Outbreak of Saprochaete clavata Sepsis in Hematology Patients: Combined Use of MALDI-TOF and Sequencing Strategy to Identify and Correlate the Episodes

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Introduction: New fungal species are increasingly reported in immunocompromised patients. Saprochaete clavata (S. clavata), an ascomycetous fungus formerly called Geotrichum clavatum, is intrinsically resistant to echinocandins and is often misidentified. Objective: We describe a cluster of seven S. clavata infections in hospitalized hematology patients who developed this rare fungemia within a span of eleven...

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