Pulmonary Protothecosis in a Pediatric Liver Transplant Patient | Zendy

R. M. R. Tan | Zendy; Marion M. Aw | Zendy; SengHock Quak | Zendy; See-Wing Chan | Zendy

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Pulmonary Protothecosis in a Pediatric Liver Transplant Patient

Author(s) -

R. M. R. Tan,

Marion M. Aw,

SengHock Quak,

See-Wing Chan

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 2048-7207

pISSN - 2048-7193

DOI - 10.1093/jpids/pit034

Subject(s) - medicine , liver transplantation , pneumonia , pneumocystis pneumonia , dermatology , intensive care medicine , pneumocystis jirovecii , surgery , transplantation

Immunocompromised patients are susceptible to infections from common and unusual microorganisms. Protothecosis is seldom suspected on clinical grounds, yet it is readily diagnosed once detected in the laboratory. We report the first pediatric liver transplant recipient with pulmonary protothecosis, detected during an episode of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, and we conducted a review of the available literature.

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