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is a saprophytic yeast known to colonize the human skin, respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract. It can cause local or disseminated disease (geotrichosis), mainly in the immunocompromised host. Trauma, indwelling catheter use, prolonged broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment and critical illness have also been implicated as risk factors. Here we report the first case, to our knowledge, of cutaneous infection in a burn patient. The isolate had a high amphotericin B minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the patient experienced concomitant fungaemia, and so was treated with a combination of voriconazole and micafungin. This case highlights the importance of source control, rapid identification of infection and MIC determination to guide antifungal therapy, which typically consists of amphotericin B with or without flucytosine or voriconazole alone. Clinicians should be aware of geotrichosis as a clinical entity in burn patients as well as in the immunocompromised. Antifungal resistance and breakthrough disease are an ongoing concern due to the increasing number of immunocompromised at-risk patients and the use of routine mould prophylaxis.

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