Cryptococcosis mimicking cutaneous cellulitis in a patient suffering from rheumatoid arthritis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast and the most frequent cryptococcal species found in humans. Cryptococcosis is considered an opportunistic infection as it affects mainly immunosuppressed individuals. In humans, C. neoformans causes three types of infections: pulmonary cry...

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Autores principales: Probst, Corina, Pongratz, Georg, Capellino, Silvia, Szeimies, Rolf M, Schölmerich, Jürgen, Fleck, Martin, Salzberger, Bernd, Ehrenstein, Boris
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2931510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20699010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-239

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2931510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20699010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-239

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