OPPORTUNISTIC TRICHOSPORON PNEUMONIA - ASSOCIATION WITH INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 105 (9) , 456-459
Abstract
Two severely immunocompromised patients suffered extensive pulmonary infection with T. cutaneum (T. beigelii) and Aspergillus spp. In 1 patient, the T. cutaneum demonstrated yeast forms in tissue sections. The other patient had T. cutaneum fungemia prior to death; examination of lung tissue demonstrated both yeast and hyphal forms. These patients are evidently the first described with polymycotic infection involving T. cutaneum and Aspergillus spp. T. cutaneum must be added to Candida, Torulopsis and Cryptococcus spp. as a cause of visceral opportunistic yeast infection.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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