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Lethal systemic and brain infection caused by Prototheca zopfii algae in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia
Systemic protothecosis is an exceptionally rare cause of sepsis with few available therapeutic options. Here, we report on a female patient with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia who died after start of chemotherapy due to a severe septic shock caused by a disseminated systemic infection with P...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7873573/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33604236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2021.01.004 |
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author | Herold, Stephanie Klodt, Tristan Toelle, Daniela Dennebaum, Martin Lippe, Elena Walz, Cleo Kaes, Joachim Kreft, Andreas Siegel, Ekkehard Munder, Markus Teschner, Daniel |
author_facet | Herold, Stephanie Klodt, Tristan Toelle, Daniela Dennebaum, Martin Lippe, Elena Walz, Cleo Kaes, Joachim Kreft, Andreas Siegel, Ekkehard Munder, Markus Teschner, Daniel |
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description | Systemic protothecosis is an exceptionally rare cause of sepsis with few available therapeutic options. Here, we report on a female patient with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia who died after start of chemotherapy due to a severe septic shock caused by a disseminated systemic infection with Prototheca zopfii including encephalitis. |
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spelling | pubmed-78735732021-02-17 Lethal systemic and brain infection caused by Prototheca zopfii algae in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia Herold, Stephanie Klodt, Tristan Toelle, Daniela Dennebaum, Martin Lippe, Elena Walz, Cleo Kaes, Joachim Kreft, Andreas Siegel, Ekkehard Munder, Markus Teschner, Daniel Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Systemic protothecosis is an exceptionally rare cause of sepsis with few available therapeutic options. Here, we report on a female patient with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia who died after start of chemotherapy due to a severe septic shock caused by a disseminated systemic infection with Prototheca zopfii including encephalitis. Elsevier 2021-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7873573/ /pubmed/33604236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2021.01.004 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Herold, Stephanie Klodt, Tristan Toelle, Daniela Dennebaum, Martin Lippe, Elena Walz, Cleo Kaes, Joachim Kreft, Andreas Siegel, Ekkehard Munder, Markus Teschner, Daniel Lethal systemic and brain infection caused by Prototheca zopfii algae in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia |
title | Lethal systemic and brain infection caused by Prototheca zopfii algae in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia |
title_full | Lethal systemic and brain infection caused by Prototheca zopfii algae in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia |
title_fullStr | Lethal systemic and brain infection caused by Prototheca zopfii algae in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia |
title_full_unstemmed | Lethal systemic and brain infection caused by Prototheca zopfii algae in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia |
title_short | Lethal systemic and brain infection caused by Prototheca zopfii algae in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia |
title_sort | lethal systemic and brain infection caused by prototheca zopfii algae in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7873573/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33604236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2021.01.004 |
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