Cryptococcus laurentii Diarrhea in a Neoplastic Patient

We present a rare case of diarrhea and neutropenia caused by Cryptococcus laurentii (C. laurentii) infection in old patient with metastatic rectal cancer who underwent FOLFOX plus Cetuximab chemotherapy. C. laurentii is an extremely rare human pathogen. To the best of our knowledge, here, we report...

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Autores principales: Calista, Franco, Tomei, Federica, Assalone, Pasquale, Traficante, Divina, Di Pilla, Gianni, Pepe, Carla, Di Lullo, Liberato
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25692059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/216458
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author Calista, Franco
Tomei, Federica
Assalone, Pasquale
Traficante, Divina
Di Pilla, Gianni
Pepe, Carla
Di Lullo, Liberato
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description We present a rare case of diarrhea and neutropenia caused by Cryptococcus laurentii (C. laurentii) infection in old patient with metastatic rectal cancer who underwent FOLFOX plus Cetuximab chemotherapy. C. laurentii is an extremely rare human pathogen. To the best of our knowledge, here, we report the first case of diarrhea and neutropenia caused by C. laurentii in a 74-year-old man with metastatic rectal cancer and hepatic metastases who underwent FOLFOX plus Cetuximab chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-43230622015-02-17 Cryptococcus laurentii Diarrhea in a Neoplastic Patient Calista, Franco Tomei, Federica Assalone, Pasquale Traficante, Divina Di Pilla, Gianni Pepe, Carla Di Lullo, Liberato Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report We present a rare case of diarrhea and neutropenia caused by Cryptococcus laurentii (C. laurentii) infection in old patient with metastatic rectal cancer who underwent FOLFOX plus Cetuximab chemotherapy. C. laurentii is an extremely rare human pathogen. To the best of our knowledge, here, we report the first case of diarrhea and neutropenia caused by C. laurentii in a 74-year-old man with metastatic rectal cancer and hepatic metastases who underwent FOLFOX plus Cetuximab chemotherapy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4323062/ /pubmed/25692059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/216458 Text en Copyright © 2015 Franco Calista et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25692059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/216458
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