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
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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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author Tsiodras, Sotirios
Papageorgiou, Sotirios
Meletiadis, Joseph
Tofas, Polydoros
Pappa, Vasiliki
Panayiotides, John
Karakitsos, Petros
Armaganidis, Apostolos
Petrikkos, George
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Papageorgiou, Sotirios
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description 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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spelling pubmed-42163852014-11-06 Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review Tsiodras, Sotirios Papageorgiou, Sotirios Meletiadis, Joseph Tofas, Polydoros Pappa, Vasiliki Panayiotides, John Karakitsos, Petros Armaganidis, Apostolos Petrikkos, George Med Mycol Case Rep Article 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. Elsevier 2014-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4216385/ /pubmed/25379400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.08.006 Text en © 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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Tsiodras, Sotirios
Papageorgiou, Sotirios
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Panayiotides, John
Karakitsos, Petros
Armaganidis, Apostolos
Petrikkos, George
Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review
title Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review
title_full Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review
title_fullStr Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review
title_full_unstemmed Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review
title_short Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review
title_sort rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: a subacute entity with high mortality. case report and review
topic Article
url 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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