Emerging pathogen in immunocompromised hosts: Exophiala dermatitidis mycosis in graft‐versus‐host disease |
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| Authors: | S. Chalkias C.D. Alonso J.D. Levine M.T. Wong |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, , Boston, Massachusetts, USA;2. Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, , Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Abstract: | Infection with the dematiaceous environmental fungus Exophiala, an emerging pathogen in immunocompromised individuals, poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Herein, we report the first Exophiala dermatitidis fungemia case, to our knowledge, in an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patient with graft‐versus‐host disease, expanding the clinical setting where Exophiala species mycosis should be suspected. |
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| Keywords: |
Exophiala
hematopoietic stem cell transplant graft‐versus‐host disease |
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