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| Morais,Orlando Oliveira de; Porto,Cláudia; Coutinho,Anglya Samara Silva Leite; Reis,Carmélia Matos Santiago; Teixeira,Marcus de Melo; Gomes,Ciro Martins. |
| Aureobasidium pullulans is a causal agent of phaeohyphomycosis, occasionally found in men and animals. As an agent of different opportunistic fungal processes, it may cause fungemia, systemic infections and abscesses in different viscera. This paper aims to report a case of a patient with infection of the lymphatic system by A. pullulans. A 23-year-old patient being treated for erythema nodosum leprosum presented a 60-day complaint of daily fever, hoarseness, odynophagia and weight loss. Laboratory tests showed pancytopenia with severe neutropenia, cervical adenomegaly and solid contrast uptake lesion in the oropharyngeal region. Due to neutropenia and sepsis the patient was initially treated with cefepime and vancomycin, but there was no clinical... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/report |
Palavras-chave: HIV; Pneumonia; Macrolides; Mortality. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702011000300019 |
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