Acremonium Pneumonia: Case Report and Literature Review

Acremonium spp. cause human superficial infections including mycetoma, onychomycosis and keratitis. There are a few reports of systemic involvement in immunocompromised patients. However, isolated pulmonary infection in otherwise healthy hosts has never been reported in the literature. Herein, we re...

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Autores principales: Fakharian, Atefeh, Dorudinia, Atosa, Alavi Darazam, Ilad, Mansouri, Davood, Masjedi, Mohammad Reza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26528372
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author Fakharian, Atefeh
Dorudinia, Atosa
Alavi Darazam, Ilad
Mansouri, Davood
Masjedi, Mohammad Reza
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description Acremonium spp. cause human superficial infections including mycetoma, onychomycosis and keratitis. There are a few reports of systemic involvement in immunocompromised patients. However, isolated pulmonary infection in otherwise healthy hosts has never been reported in the literature. Herein, we report a 59 year-old diabetic man with non-resolving pneumonia due to Acremonium spp. and provide a consensus review of the published clinical cases of systemic and respiratory tract infections.
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spelling pubmed-46294322015-11-02 Acremonium Pneumonia: Case Report and Literature Review Fakharian, Atefeh Dorudinia, Atosa Alavi Darazam, Ilad Mansouri, Davood Masjedi, Mohammad Reza Tanaffos Case Report Acremonium spp. cause human superficial infections including mycetoma, onychomycosis and keratitis. There are a few reports of systemic involvement in immunocompromised patients. However, isolated pulmonary infection in otherwise healthy hosts has never been reported in the literature. Herein, we report a 59 year-old diabetic man with non-resolving pneumonia due to Acremonium spp. and provide a consensus review of the published clinical cases of systemic and respiratory tract infections. National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4629432/ /pubmed/26528372 Text en Copyright© 2015 National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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