Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review

A fatal case of meningitis due to Rhodotorula mucilaginosa in a 28 year-old HIV-negative male with a history of Hodgkin lymphoma who underwent salvage chemotherapy is presented. Reviewing the literature we identified 13 cases with central nervous system infection due Rhodotorula spp. The disease usu...

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Autores principales: Tsiodras, Sotirios, Papageorgiou, Sotirios, Meletiadis, Joseph, Tofas, Polydoros, Pappa, Vasiliki, Panayiotides, John, Karakitsos, Petros, Armaganidis, Apostolos, Petrikkos, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4216385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25379400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.08.006
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Sumario:A fatal case of meningitis due to Rhodotorula mucilaginosa in a 28 year-old HIV-negative male with a history of Hodgkin lymphoma who underwent salvage chemotherapy is presented. Reviewing the literature we identified 13 cases with central nervous system infection due Rhodotorula spp. The disease usually occurs in HIV negative immunosupressed middle-aged males. It takes the form of subacute or chronic meningitis accompanied by fever with an overall mortality of 46.2% despite antifungal therapy.

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