Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion

ABSTRACT This is a fatal case of fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented pleural effusion as the only clinical presentation. Not only infections of the pleura are uncommon presentations of pulmonary cryptococcosis, but these infections du...

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Published in:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Main Authors: Giovanni Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Eliana Coque-Burgos, Omar Espitia-Castro, Carolina Firacative
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Subjects:
pleural effusion
cryptococcus
fungemia
diabetes mellitus
type 2
elderly
colombia
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946202062034
https://doaj.org/article/e4703c9662264e648c1c30ba69e2bacd
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Summary:ABSTRACT This is a fatal case of fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented pleural effusion as the only clinical presentation. Not only infections of the pleura are uncommon presentations of pulmonary cryptococcosis, but these infections due to non-C. neoformans species are extremely rare. This report places C. albidus on the growing number of disseminated mycosis-causing agents in diabetic patients.

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