TY - JOUR
T1 - Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion
AU - Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Giovanni
AU - Coque-Burgos, Eliana
AU - Espitia-Castro, Omar
AU - Firacative, Carolina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo. All rights reserved.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This is a fatal case of fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented pleural effusion as the only clinical presentation. Not only infections of the pleura are uncommon presentations of pulmonary cryptococcosis, but these infections due to non-C. neoformans species are extremely rare. This report places C. albidus on the growing number of disseminated mycosis-causing agents in diabetic patients.
AB - This is a fatal case of fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented pleural effusion as the only clinical presentation. Not only infections of the pleura are uncommon presentations of pulmonary cryptococcosis, but these infections due to non-C. neoformans species are extremely rare. This report places C. albidus on the growing number of disseminated mycosis-causing agents in diabetic patients.
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U2 - 10.1590/S1678-9946202062034
DO - 10.1590/S1678-9946202062034
M3 - Article
C2 - 32491141
AN - SCOPUS:85085960745
SN - 0036-4665
VL - 62
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
JF - Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
M1 - e34
ER -
