Invasive yeast infection in paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: A report from the multi‐international clinical trial <scp>AIEOP</scp> ‐ <scp>BFM ALL</scp> 2009

Prospective data of a large randomized multi-international leukaemia trial revealed an incidence of 1.1% of invasive yeast infections (IYIs) in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. IYIs occurred predominantly during induction chemotherapy, presented as bloodstream infection ± tissue involvement, were due to a variety of yeast and had an attributable mortality of 5.9%.