Table 2.
Baseline microbiologic culture results
| Study Group, No. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organism | Natamycin Only (N = 25) a | Natamycin + CXL (N = 27) | Amphotericin Only (N = 29) a | Amphotericin + CXL (N = 27) a | Total (N = 108) |
| Alternaria species | 1 (4) | -- | -- | -- | 1 (1) |
| Aspergillus species | |||||
| A. flavus | 2 (8) | 2 (7) | 6 (20) | 4 (15) | 14 (13) |
| A. terreus | -- | 1 (4) | -- | -- | 1 (1) |
| Bipolaris species | -- | 2 (7) | -- | 1 (4) | 3 (3) |
| Colletotrichum species | -- | -- | -- | 1 (4) | 1 (1) |
| Curvularias species | 2 (8) | 1 (4) | 2 (7) | 2 (7) | 7 (6) |
| Exserohilum species | 1 (4) | 1 (4) | 2 (2) | ||
| Fusarium species | 11 (44) | 10 (37) | 14 (47) | 10 (37) | 45 (42) |
| Scedosporium species | -- | 2 (7) | -- | -- | 2 (2) |
| Unidentified hyaline | 1 (4) | -- | 3 (10) | -- | 4 (4) |
| Unidentified dematiaceous | -- | 3 (11) | 1 (3) | 2 (7) | 6 (6) |
| Fungal culture negative | 8 (32) | 5 (19) | 3 (10) | 6 (22) | 22 (20) |
a
Missing data for one patient
Abbreviations: A. = Aspergillus, No. = number