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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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Autores principales: Herold, Stephanie, Klodt, Tristan, Toelle, Daniela, Dennebaum, Martin, Lippe, Elena, Walz, Cleo, Kaes, Joachim, Kreft, Andreas, Siegel, Ekkehard, Munder, Markus, Teschner, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 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
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Klodt, Tristan
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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/).
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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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