Oral Moniliasis Complicating Combined Broad-Spectrum-Antibiotic and Antifungal Therapy

Abstract

SUPERINFECTION with yeasts or fungi long has been recognized as a complication of broad-spectrum-antibiotic therapy.^{1 , 2} In this age of multiple-drug therapy the practitioner is likely to be attracted by claims of prevention of secondary infection by specific drug combinations. The following case suggests that this danger may not have been eliminated by the most recent combination of broad-spectrum antibiotic and antifungal agent.Case ReportA 3 1/2-year-old boy was seen by a physician on January 20, 1961, because of symptoms of upper-respiratory-tract infection. Bilateral otitis media was found, along with coarse breath sounds throughout both lung fields. Papules were described . . .