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Titre: Infection of the lymphatic system by Aureobasidium pullulans in a patient with erythema nodosum leprosum
Auteur(s): Morais, Orlando Oliveira de
Porto, Cláudia
Coutinho, Anglya Samara Silva Leite
Reis, Carmélia Matos Santiago
Teixeira, Marcus de Melo
Gomes, Ciro Martins
Assunto:: HIV (Vírus)
Pneumonia
Mortalidade
Date de publication: 2011
Editeur: Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Référence bibliographique: Braz J Infect Dis,v.15,n.3,p.288-292,2011
Résumé: 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 improvement. Lymph node puncture-aspiration showed yeast-form fungus identified as A. pullulans by sequencing ITS region. The patient was treated with amphotericin B deoxycholate, leading to complete recovery of bone marrow function and regression of adenomegaly and the oropharyngeal lesion.
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-86702011000300019
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