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Secondary peritonitis in a patient with cirrhosis involving Hyphopichia burtonii, an emerging fungal pathogen

We present a case where Hyphopichia burtonii, a yeast, speciated from peritoneal fluid in a cirrhotic patient with secondary peritonitis. The patient, a man in his 60s with decompensated cirrhosis, was admitted for an upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleed. On admission, he was treated empirically for sp...

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Autores principales: Feldman, Erica B., Bellinghausen, Amy L., Vodkin, Irine E., Abeles, Shira R., Kamdar, Biren B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9996382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36911872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01730
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Sumario:We present a case where Hyphopichia burtonii, a yeast, speciated from peritoneal fluid in a cirrhotic patient with secondary peritonitis. The patient, a man in his 60s with decompensated cirrhosis, was admitted for an upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleed. On admission, he was treated empirically for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) but failed to improve with antibiotics. Serial paracenteses revealed polymicrobial peritonitis and rising peritoneal polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs). These findings raised concerns for secondary peritonitis, prompting an abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan which revealed ischemic bowel. Among the peritoneal microbiota isolated, Hyphopichia burtonii predominated. Hyphopichia burtonii has only recently been reported as a human pathogen, previously it had only reported as a pathogen in bats[1,2].