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Central Nervous System Infections in Transplant Recipients by Cladophialophora bantiana
- Source :
- Southern Medical Journal. 101:292-296
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Southern Medical Association, 2008.
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Abstract
- Cladophialophora bantiana, a dematiaceous fungus, is an uncommon pathogenic organism originally thought to more commonly affect immunocompetent patients. Increasing numbers of reports, however, describe the organism affecting immunocompromised patients. Like all dematiaceous fungi, Cladophialophora can be recognized in histopathologic sections by the golden-brown coloration in the walls of the hyphae. Of all the dematiaceous fungi, Cladophialophora bantiana demonstrates the most neurotropism, which is responsible for increasing recognition of this fungus as the causative agent in brain abscesses in transplant patients. We describe one patient with a liver transplant and another with a double lung transplant, both of whom developed cerebral abscesses caused by this organism, and review the reported literature.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Transplantation Conditioning
Hypha
Neurotropism
Central nervous system
Brain Abscess
Transplants
Fungus
Cladophialophora bantiana
Dematiaceous fungus
Immunocompromised Host
Ascomycota
Central Nervous System Fungal Infections
medicine
Humans
biology
business.industry
fungi
General Medicine
biology.organism_classification
Radiography
Transplantation
medicine.anatomical_structure
Female
Transplant patient
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00384348
- Volume :
- 101
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Southern Medical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5bee04dd1b56370e7e44cf12e69fe7c4