Table 2. Summary of cases of E. dermatitidis infection in children without cystic fibrosis since 1993.

No.	Age (years)/gender	Manifestation	Predisposing factor	Diagnostic method	Treatment	Outcome	Geographical region	Reference
1	3/M	Fungaemia	Acute leukemia	Culture	Catheter removal, AMPH-B, 5-FC	Survived	Germany	[19]
2	3/M	Fungaemia	HIV infection	Culture	Catheter removal, AMPH-B, ITCZ	Survived	USA	[20]
3	8/M	Systemic	None	Biopsy	AMPH-B, VRCZ	Died	Turkey	[21]
4	3/M	Brain abscess, meningitis	None	Biopsy, culture, PCR	AMPH-B, FLCZ, ITLC	Died	China	[14]
5	11/F	Liver cirrhosis	None	Biopsy, culture, PCR	VRCZ, liver transplantation	Survived	Korea	[22]
6	17/M	Phaeohyphomycosis	None	Biopsy	ITCZ, Op	Survived	Argentina	[23]
7	8/M	Brain abscess	None	Biopsy	AMPH-B, VRCZ, 5-FC	Died	China	[24]
8	16/F	Pneumonia	Cystic fibrosis	Culture	ITCZ, VRCZ	ns	USA	[25]
9	8/M	Pneumonia	AML after BMT	Culture	PSCZ	Died	Slovakia	Our case

5-FC, 5-Fluorocytosine; AML, acute myeloid leukemia; AMPH-B, amphotericin B; BMT, bone marrow transplantation; F, female; FLCZ, fluconazole; ITCZ, itraconazole; M, male; ns, not stated; Op, operation; PSCZ, posaconazole; VRCZ, voriconazole.