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SUBMITTER: Tap RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4937094 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mycopathologia 20160324 7-8
The number of new fungal pathogens is increasing due to growing population of immunocompromised patients and advanced identification techniques. Fereydounia khargensis is a yeast and was first described in 2014 from environmental samples. As far as we know, this is the first report of human infections associated with F. khargensis. The yeasts were isolated from blood of a HIV-positive patient and pleural fluid of chronic renal failure patient. Amplification and sequencing of the internal transcr ...[more]