A patient receiving total parenteral alimentation through a central catheter developed fatal candida sepsis originating from suppurative phlebitis of a peripheral vein. This case underscores the importance of aggressively pursuing all potential endovascular sources of fungemia in susceptible patients: those on antibiotics, with chemical phlebitis, and hyperglycemia.
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Deitch et al. (1980) studied this question.