Blastoschizomyces capitatus pneumonia in a patient with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Several cases have been reported of B. capitatus infections in immunocompromised patients. Acute leukemia is the main predisposing factor. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is not usually associated with opportunistic infections. We report a case of pulmonary infection by B. capitatus in a patient...

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Autores principales: Trovato, Laura, Domina, Maria, Vancheri, Ada, Oliveri, Salvatore, Ciancio, Nicola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6169324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30294534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.09.004
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author Trovato, Laura
Domina, Maria
Vancheri, Ada
Oliveri, Salvatore
Ciancio, Nicola
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Domina, Maria
Vancheri, Ada
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Ciancio, Nicola
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description Several cases have been reported of B. capitatus infections in immunocompromised patients. Acute leukemia is the main predisposing factor. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is not usually associated with opportunistic infections. We report a case of pulmonary infection by B. capitatus in a patient with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Although the patient had a complete recovery, we believe that this report will alert clinicians to consider B. capitatus as possible cause of severe pneumonia in untreated CLL.
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spelling pubmed-61693242018-10-05 Blastoschizomyces capitatus pneumonia in a patient with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia Trovato, Laura Domina, Maria Vancheri, Ada Oliveri, Salvatore Ciancio, Nicola Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Several cases have been reported of B. capitatus infections in immunocompromised patients. Acute leukemia is the main predisposing factor. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is not usually associated with opportunistic infections. We report a case of pulmonary infection by B. capitatus in a patient with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Although the patient had a complete recovery, we believe that this report will alert clinicians to consider B. capitatus as possible cause of severe pneumonia in untreated CLL. Elsevier 2018-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6169324/ /pubmed/30294534 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.09.004 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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Blastoschizomyces capitatus pneumonia in a patient with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia
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title_full Blastoschizomyces capitatus pneumonia in a patient with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia
title_fullStr Blastoschizomyces capitatus pneumonia in a patient with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia
title_full_unstemmed Blastoschizomyces capitatus pneumonia in a patient with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia
title_short Blastoschizomyces capitatus pneumonia in a patient with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6169324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30294534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.09.004
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