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SUBMITTER: Miossec C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3147864 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miossec Charline C Morio Florent F Lepoivre Thierry T Le Pape Patrice P Garcia-Hermoso Dea D Gay-Andrieu Françoise F Haloun Alain A Treilhaud Michele M Leclair François F Miegeville Michel M
Journal of clinical microbiology 20110504 7
Scopulariopsis species are rarely but increasingly recognized as opportunistic pathogens in immunocompromised patients. We report on a patient suffering from cystic fibrosis who developed disseminated fungal infection due to a rare Scopulariopsis species, Microascus cirrosus, after heart and lung transplantation. Despite antifungal combination therapy with voriconazole and caspofungin, the patient died 4 weeks after transplantation. Diagnostic difficulties and optimal management of disseminated ...[more]