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In their series on Candida krusei fungemia occurring at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, from 1989 to 1996, Abbas et al¹ observed an escalating frequency of this complication in patients with hematologic malignancies since 1993, when fluconazole became widely used as a prophylactic agent. These data confirm the association between fluconazole use and infections caused by this fungus that was previously reported at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.² However, this epidemiologic phenomenon continues to be debated, as other authors have not observed an impact of fluconazole use on the etiology of Candida infections, and the proportion of patients with cancer and candidemia due to C krusei seems not to have varied over the past 2 decades.^3-9 Importantly, the emergence of C krusei infections in association with fluconazole prophylaxis has been noted only at single centers,^{1, 10-13} in contrast with the findings in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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