Cutaneous Alternariosis Caused by Alternaria infectoria: Three Cases in Kidney Transplant Patients

The genus Alternaria has more than 80 species. Alternaria alternata and Alternaria infectoria are the most frequent species associated with infections in humans. Their clinical importance lies in the growing number of cases reported in immunocompromised patients. Herein, we report three cases of kid...

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Autores principales: Lopes, Leonor, Borges-Costa, João, Soares-Almeida, Luís, Filipe, Paulo, Neves, Fernanda, Santana, Alice, Guerra, José, Kutzner, Heinz
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Publicado: MDPI 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4934509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27429134
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare1010100
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author Lopes, Leonor
Borges-Costa, João
Soares-Almeida, Luís
Filipe, Paulo
Neves, Fernanda
Santana, Alice
Guerra, José
Kutzner, Heinz
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Borges-Costa, João
Soares-Almeida, Luís
Filipe, Paulo
Neves, Fernanda
Santana, Alice
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description The genus Alternaria has more than 80 species. Alternaria alternata and Alternaria infectoria are the most frequent species associated with infections in humans. Their clinical importance lies in the growing number of cases reported in immunocompromised patients. Herein, we report three cases of kidney-transplanted patients with different clinical presentations of cutaneous alternariosis and we discuss the treatment options.
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spelling pubmed-49345092016-07-12 Cutaneous Alternariosis Caused by Alternaria infectoria: Three Cases in Kidney Transplant Patients Lopes, Leonor Borges-Costa, João Soares-Almeida, Luís Filipe, Paulo Neves, Fernanda Santana, Alice Guerra, José Kutzner, Heinz Healthcare (Basel) Article The genus Alternaria has more than 80 species. Alternaria alternata and Alternaria infectoria are the most frequent species associated with infections in humans. Their clinical importance lies in the growing number of cases reported in immunocompromised patients. Herein, we report three cases of kidney-transplanted patients with different clinical presentations of cutaneous alternariosis and we discuss the treatment options. MDPI 2013-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4934509/ /pubmed/27429134 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare1010100 Text en © 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Cutaneous Alternariosis Caused by Alternaria infectoria: Three Cases in Kidney Transplant Patients
title Cutaneous Alternariosis Caused by Alternaria infectoria: Three Cases in Kidney Transplant Patients
title_full Cutaneous Alternariosis Caused by Alternaria infectoria: Three Cases in Kidney Transplant Patients
title_fullStr Cutaneous Alternariosis Caused by Alternaria infectoria: Three Cases in Kidney Transplant Patients
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous Alternariosis Caused by Alternaria infectoria: Three Cases in Kidney Transplant Patients
title_short Cutaneous Alternariosis Caused by Alternaria infectoria: Three Cases in Kidney Transplant Patients
title_sort cutaneous alternariosis caused by alternaria infectoria: three cases in kidney transplant patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4934509/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare1010100
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