Neonatal sepsis by Malassezia furfur.

We report one case of neonatal sepsis caused by Malassezia furfur in an infant who had been in the Intensive Care Unit for 64 days. She had received prolonged therapy with intravenous fat emulsion. We used Sabouraud's medium with an overlay of sterile olive oil for the blood culture, because we had observed yeast forms in one smear of peripheral blood. M. furfur was isolated after three days of incubation. The patient recovered following removal of the port-a-cath and antifungal treatment, and had no further evidence of fungal infection. The skin colonization by the same yeast was demonstrated.