Budding Yeast Cells in Peripheral Blood Smear: Clue to Candidemia.

The article presents a case study of a 46 year young woman suffering from acute myeloid leukemia who was admitted for the treatment of grade III acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Topics discussed includes fluconazole treatment during which extracellular and intracellular budding yeast cells were fortuitously identified on peripheral blood smear, diagnosis and antifungal treatment's impact on prognosis of candidemia in immunocompromised patients.