Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion

This is a fatal case of fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented pleural effusion as the only clinical presentation. Not only infections of the pleura are uncommon presentations of pulmonary cryptococcosis, but these infections due to non-...

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Autores principales: Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Giovanni, Coque-Burgos, Eliana, Espitia-Castro, Omar, Firacative, Carolina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto de Medicina Tropical 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32491141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946202062034
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Sumario:This is a fatal case of fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented pleural effusion as the only clinical presentation. Not only infections of the pleura are uncommon presentations of pulmonary cryptococcosis, but these infections due to non-C. neoformans species are extremely rare. This report places C. albidus on the growing number of disseminated mycosis-causing agents in diabetic patients.

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