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
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Publicado: Instituto de Medicina Tropical 2020
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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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author Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Giovanni
Coque-Burgos, Eliana
Espitia-Castro, Omar
Firacative, Carolina
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description 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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spelling pubmed-72666132020-06-11 Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Giovanni Coque-Burgos, Eliana Espitia-Castro, Omar Firacative, Carolina Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo Case Report 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. Instituto de Medicina Tropical 2020-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7266613/ /pubmed/32491141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946202062034 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion
title Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion
title_full Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion
title_fullStr Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion
title_full_unstemmed Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion
title_short Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion
title_sort fatal fungaemia due to cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion
topic Case Report
url 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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