Cerebral Abscess by Fonsecaea monophora—The First Case Reported in Germany

We report the first case of cerebral Fonsecaea monophora infection in a German woman without immunodeficiency or travel history. F. monophora infection is a rare differential diagnosis of cerebral tumors; it was previously considered a tropical fungus. This case adds to the scarce reports in nontrop...

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Autores principales: Helbig, Sina, Thuermer, Alexander, Dengl, Markus, Krukowski, Pawel, de With, Katja
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6012538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29977972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy129
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spelling pubmed-60125382018-07-05 Cerebral Abscess by Fonsecaea monophora—The First Case Reported in Germany Helbig, Sina Thuermer, Alexander Dengl, Markus Krukowski, Pawel de With, Katja Open Forum Infect Dis ID Case We report the first case of cerebral Fonsecaea monophora infection in a German woman without immunodeficiency or travel history. F. monophora infection is a rare differential diagnosis of cerebral tumors; it was previously considered a tropical fungus. This case adds to the scarce reports in nontropical regions. Oxford University Press 2018-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6012538/ /pubmed/29977972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy129 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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