Exophiala Pneumonia Presenting with a Cough Productive of Black Sputum

Exophiala species are black, yeast-like molds that can cause subcutaneous cysts as well as disseminated disease. Isolated pneumonia due to Exophiala species is extremely uncommon. We report a case of isolated Exophiala pneumonia in a patient with bronchiectasis who presented with worsening dyspnea a...

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Autores principales: Cohen, Yehuda Z., Stead, Wendy
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/PMC4436473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26075119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/821049
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description Exophiala species are black, yeast-like molds that can cause subcutaneous cysts as well as disseminated disease. Isolated pneumonia due to Exophiala species is extremely uncommon. We report a case of isolated Exophiala pneumonia in a patient with bronchiectasis who presented with worsening dyspnea and a cough productive of black sputum. The production of black sputum, known as melanoptysis, is an uncommon physical finding with a limited differential diagnosis. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of Exophiala pneumonia presenting with a cough productive of black sputum.
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spelling pubmed-44364732015-06-14 Exophiala Pneumonia Presenting with a Cough Productive of Black Sputum Cohen, Yehuda Z. Stead, Wendy Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Exophiala species are black, yeast-like molds that can cause subcutaneous cysts as well as disseminated disease. Isolated pneumonia due to Exophiala species is extremely uncommon. We report a case of isolated Exophiala pneumonia in a patient with bronchiectasis who presented with worsening dyspnea and a cough productive of black sputum. The production of black sputum, known as melanoptysis, is an uncommon physical finding with a limited differential diagnosis. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of Exophiala pneumonia presenting with a cough productive of black sputum. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4436473/ /pubmed/26075119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/821049 Text en Copyright © 2015 Y. Z. Cohen and W. Stead. 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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