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Firstcase of pneumonia-parapneumonic effusion due to Trichoderma longibrachiatum

Trichoderma longibrachiatum is a fungus belonging to the genus Trichoderma. Trichoderma longibrachiatum is not thought as a pathogenic for healthy individuals. However, it has the ability to produce toxic peptides and extracellular proteases and has been described to cause invasive infections in imm...

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Autores principales: Georgakopoulou, Vasiliki Epameinondas, Melemeni, Despoina, Mantzouranis, Konstantinos, Damaskos, Christos, Gkoufa, Aikaterini, Chlapoutakis, Serafeim, Garmpis, Nikolaos, Garmpi, Anna, Sklapani, Pagona, Trakas, Nikolaos, Tsiafaki, Xanthi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8329512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34377673
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01239
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Sumario:Trichoderma longibrachiatum is a fungus belonging to the genus Trichoderma. Trichoderma longibrachiatum is not thought as a pathogenic for healthy individuals. However, it has the ability to produce toxic peptides and extracellular proteases and has been described to cause invasive infections in immunocompromised hosts. Trichoderma longibrachiatum has been reported as the causative microorganism of lung infections, skin infections, sinus infections, otitis, stomatitis endocarditis, pericarditis, gastrointestinal infections, mediastinitis and peritonitis. We report the first case of pneumonia with parapneumonic effusion in an old woman with diabetes mellitus due to Trichoderma longibrachiatum.