Scedosporium prolificans is a saprophytic fungus responsible for an increasing number of infections among immunocompromised hosts. Historically, disseminated infection with this organism has resulted in death. We report on a pediatric patient who developed overwhelming S. prolificans sepsis after induction chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She is well 18 months after the diagnosis of fungal sepsis and continues to receive chemotherapy for leukemia, which remains in remission.

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Alloimmune neonatal neutropenia (ANN) is reported for the first time in two Australian aboriginals. Both infants displayed the typical clinical features of ANN with profound neutropenia which persisted for 7 weeks and only minor infectious episodes. However, management strategies differed for the two infants because in one case (complicated by uncertain paternity) serological confirmation of ANN was not obtained until after recovery of the infant's neutrophil count. The maternal antibodies could not be assigned to known neutrophil antigen specificities and a new antigen may be involved. The antibodies were reactive with > 99% of neutrophils in a Caucasian population. Aboriginals comprise 1% of the total population of Australia and 1-2% of the obstetric population at our institution. Thus, ANN may be an unrecognized disorder in this ethnic group and a possible cause of neonatal infection and mortality.

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