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Volume 31, Number 8—August 2025

CME ACTIVITY - Research

Scheffersomyces spartinae Fungemia among Pediatric Patients, Pakistan, 2020–2024

Kauser Jabeen, Joveria Farooqi, Lacy M. Simons, Judd F. Hultquist, Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, Charlesnika T. Evans, Erica M. Hartmann, Mohammad Hanif, Zahra Hasan, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Javaria Ashraf, Hassan Ghayas, Sadaf Zaka, Noureen Saeed, Sayed Ali Raza Shah Bukhari, Mehreen Arshad, Larry K. Kociolek, Sameer J. Patel, Rumina Hasan, and Egon A. OzerComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan (K. Jabeen, J. Farooqui, Z. Hasan, S.F. Mahmood, J. Ashraf, H. Ghayas, S. Zaka, N. Saeed, S.A.R. Shah Buhari, M. Arshad, R. Hasan); Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA (L.M. Simons, J.F. Hultquist, R. Lorenzo-Redondo, C.T. Evans, E.M. Hartmann, E.A. Ozer); Northwestern University Havey Institute for Global Health, Chicago (L.M. Simons, J.F. Hultquist, R. Lorenzo-Redondo, E.A. Ozer); Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois, USA (C.T. Evans); Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering, Evanston, Illinois, USA (E.M. Hartmann); National Institute of Child Health, Karachi (M. Hanif); Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago (M. Arshad, L.K. Kociolek, S.J. Patel); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (R. Hasan)

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Table 1

Patient demographic and clinical characteristics from cases of Scheffersomyces spartinae fungemia among pediatric patients, Pakistan, 2020–2024

Characteristics
 No. (%), n = 108
Age group
<2 wk 40 (37.0)
2–3 wk 34 (31.5)
1–6 mo 5 (4.6)
7–11 mo 8 (7.4)
1–6 y 14 (13.0)
7–12 y
 7 (6.5)
City of residence
Karachi 99 (91.7)
Lahore 5 (4.6)
Nawabshah 2 (1.9)
Hafizabad 1 (0.9)
Multan
 1 (0.9)
Isolation year
2020 16 (14.8)
2021 0
2022 20 (18.5)
2023 66 (61.1)
2024
 6 (5.6)
Hospital or institution
Hospital B 5 (4.6)
Hospital H 75 (69.4)
Hospital N 5 (4.6)
Hospitals with only 1 case 11 (10.2)
Unknown hospital
 12 (11.1)
Clinical details
Patient family or guardian contacted 92 (85.2)
Hospitalization reported, n = 92 92 (100)
Clinical information available 63 (58.3)
Presumed sepsis, n = 63 43 (68.2)

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