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Fatal skin and pulmonary infection caused by Hormographiella aspergillata in a leukaemic patient: case report and literature overview |
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| Authors: | Marija Bojic Birgit Willinger Thomas Rath Selma Tobudic Florian Thalhammer Alexandra Böhm Margit Mitterbauer Axel Schulenburg Stefan Wöhrer Peter Kalhs Werner Rabitsch |
| Affiliation: | 1. Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, , Vienna, Austria;2. Division of Clinical Microbiology, Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, , Vienna, Austria;3. Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, , Vienna, Austria;4. Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, , Vienna, Austria;5. Department of Internal Medicine I, Elisabethinnen Hospital Linz, , Linz, Austria |
| Abstract: | Invasive systemic fungal infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. We report the case of a fatal infection with Hormographiella aspergillata in a patient undergoing allogenic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukaemia. |
| Keywords: | Hormographiella aspergillata haematopoietic stem cell transplantation |