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Pulmonary cryptococcal infection presenting with multiple lung nodules

Pulmonary infections from the environmental fungus Cryptococcus gattii (C. gattii) are notable for cryptococcomas, which are usually solitary and can be very large. As with infections with Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans) patients can have concomitant cryptococcal meningitis; however, unlike...

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Autores principales: Basnayake, Thilini L., Lim, Aijye, Currie, Bart J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29619316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.01.011
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description Pulmonary infections from the environmental fungus Cryptococcus gattii (C. gattii) are notable for cryptococcomas, which are usually solitary and can be very large. As with infections with Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans) patients can have concomitant cryptococcal meningitis; however, unlike for C. neoformans, infections with C. gattii often occur in immunocompetent patients. The highest published incidence of C. gattii infection has been in the Indigenous Australian population of Arnhem Land in the tropical north of the country. More recently C. gattii has been responsible for outbreaks of cryptococcosis in the Pacific Northwest of Canada and the United States of America (USA). A previously healthy Indigenous male from Arnhem Land presented with pulmonary cryptococcosis with chest imaging showing >50 bilateral lung nodules. This unusual occurrence was attributed to probable inhalation of fungal elements from prior use of a high-pressure leaf blower to clear eucalyptus and other debris in a remote bush camp.
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spelling pubmed-58814132018-04-04 Pulmonary cryptococcal infection presenting with multiple lung nodules Basnayake, Thilini L. Lim, Aijye Currie, Bart J. Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Pulmonary infections from the environmental fungus Cryptococcus gattii (C. gattii) are notable for cryptococcomas, which are usually solitary and can be very large. As with infections with Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans) patients can have concomitant cryptococcal meningitis; however, unlike for C. neoformans, infections with C. gattii often occur in immunocompetent patients. The highest published incidence of C. gattii infection has been in the Indigenous Australian population of Arnhem Land in the tropical north of the country. More recently C. gattii has been responsible for outbreaks of cryptococcosis in the Pacific Northwest of Canada and the United States of America (USA). A previously healthy Indigenous male from Arnhem Land presented with pulmonary cryptococcosis with chest imaging showing >50 bilateral lung nodules. This unusual occurrence was attributed to probable inhalation of fungal elements from prior use of a high-pressure leaf blower to clear eucalyptus and other debris in a remote bush camp. Elsevier 2018-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5881413/ /pubmed/29619316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.01.011 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full Pulmonary cryptococcal infection presenting with multiple lung nodules
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title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary cryptococcal infection presenting with multiple lung nodules
title_short Pulmonary cryptococcal infection presenting with multiple lung nodules
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29619316
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