Back Pain in a 23-Year-Old Male With X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease

Patients with chronic granulomatous disease are at increased risk for invasive aspergillosis. Cryptic Aspergillus species are being increasingly recognized as distinct causes of infection in this population. In this study, we describe the first case of Aspergillus udagawae vertebral osteomyelitis in...

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Autores principales: Sabo, Michelle C, Blain, Michela, McCulloch, Denise, Glasgow, Heather L, Sengupta, Dhruba J, Le, Thang, Cookson, Brad T, Pottinger, Paul S, Liles, W Conrad, Graham, Susan M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31723573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz449
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Sumario:Patients with chronic granulomatous disease are at increased risk for invasive aspergillosis. Cryptic Aspergillus species are being increasingly recognized as distinct causes of infection in this population. In this study, we describe the first case of Aspergillus udagawae vertebral osteomyelitis in a patient with X-linked chronic granulomatous disease.

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