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Emerging pathogen in immunocompromised hosts: E xophiala dermatitidis mycosis in graft‐versus‐host disease
Author(s) -
Chalkias S.,
Alonso C.D.,
Levine J.D.,
Wong M.T.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
transplant infectious disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1399-3062
pISSN - 1398-2273
DOI - 10.1111/tid.12236
Subject(s) - fungemia , medicine , pathogen , phaeohyphomycosis , disease , fungus , host (biology) , mycosis , graft versus host disease , immunology , hematopoietic stem cell transplantation , fungal pathogen , fungal disease , microbiology and biotechnology , dermatology , biology , pathology , botany , ecology
Infection with the dematiaceous environmental fungus E xophiala , an emerging pathogen in immunocompromised individuals, poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Herein, we report the first E xophiala dermatitidis fungemia case, to our knowledge, in an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patient with graft‐versus‐host disease, expanding the clinical setting where E xophiala species mycosis should be suspected.
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