"In other case reports, interleukin-2 (19), high-dose i.v. immunoglo- bulins (17) or transfer factor (11) induced marked regression in mucocutaneous candidiasis."
A 42-year-old woman was first admitted to our Department in June 1998 because of dysphagia and cachexia. She had no familial history of immunodeficiency. Since her early childhood she had been suffering from recurrent respiratory and urinary infec- tions, from chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (oral mucosa, skin, fingernails and toenails were affected), recurrent oral aphthous lesions, chronic seborrhoic dermatitis of the scalp, chronic angular stomatitis, chronic keratoconjunctivitis and persistent skin lesions.