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Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review.

ABSTRACT: A fatal case of meningitis due to Rhodotorula mucilaginosa in a 28 year-old HIV-negative male with a history of Hodgkin lymphoma who underwent salvage chemotherapy is presented. Reviewing the literature we identified 13 cases with central nervous system infection due Rhodotorula spp. The disease usually occurs in HIV negative immunosupressed middle-aged males. It takes the form of subacute or chronic meningitis accompanied by fever with an overall mortality of 46.2% despite antifungal therapy.

SUBMITTER: Tsiodras S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4216385 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Rhodotorula mucilaginosa associacted meningitis: A subacute entity with high mortality. Case report and review.

Tsiodras Sotirios S Papageorgiou Sotirios S Meletiadis Joseph J Tofas Polydoros P Pappa Vasiliki V Panayiotides John J Karakitsos Petros P Armaganidis Apostolos A Petrikkos George G

Medical mycology case reports 20140910

A fatal case of meningitis due to Rhodotorula mucilaginosa in a 28 year-old HIV-negative male with a history of Hodgkin lymphoma who underwent salvage chemotherapy is presented. Reviewing the literature we identified 13 cases with central nervous system infection due Rhodotorula spp. The disease usually occurs in HIV negative immunosupressed middle-aged males. It takes the form of subacute or chronic meningitis accompanied by fever with an overall mortality of 46.2% despite antifungal therapy. ...[more]

PMID: 25379400

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