Black mold takes hold and story told

We present a case of an invasive Curvularia infection in a patient who developed following bilateral orthotopic lung transplantation despite receiving post-transplant antifungal prophylaxis. This infection presented as mold colonies studding the interior surface of his chest tubes. Despite surgical...

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Autores principales: Rolfe, Robert, Schell, Wiley A., Smith, Becky, Klapper, Jacob, Perfect, John R., Messina, Julia A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7281360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.05.005
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author Rolfe, Robert
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description We present a case of an invasive Curvularia infection in a patient who developed following bilateral orthotopic lung transplantation despite receiving post-transplant antifungal prophylaxis. This infection presented as mold colonies studding the interior surface of his chest tubes. Despite surgical washout of his bilateral pleural cavities and antifungal treatment with liposomal amphotericin B, micafungin, and isavuconazonium sulfate, the patient died.
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spelling pubmed-72813602020-06-10 Black mold takes hold and story told Rolfe, Robert Schell, Wiley A. Smith, Becky Klapper, Jacob Perfect, John R. Messina, Julia A. Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report We present a case of an invasive Curvularia infection in a patient who developed following bilateral orthotopic lung transplantation despite receiving post-transplant antifungal prophylaxis. This infection presented as mold colonies studding the interior surface of his chest tubes. Despite surgical washout of his bilateral pleural cavities and antifungal treatment with liposomal amphotericin B, micafungin, and isavuconazonium sulfate, the patient died. Elsevier 2020-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7281360/ /pubmed/32528839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.05.005 Text en © 2020 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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