Journal article
Disseminated Scopulariopsis-culture is required to distinguish from other disseminated mould infections
Journal of cutaneous pathology, Vol.37(6), pp.687-691
2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2009.01358.x
PMID: 19615008
Abstract
Disseminated fungal infections are a major cause of mortality in severely immunocompromised bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients. Scopulariopsis is a soil saprophytic mould that is typically associated with onychomycosis and only rarely associated with disseminated infection with cutaneous findings. We describe a case of fatal disseminated Scopulariopsis infection in a 56-year-old neutropenic male with chronic myelogenous leukemia status post peripheral blood stem cell transplant that was clinically and histologically indistinguishable from disseminated Aspergillus, Fusarium or zygomycosis infection. Distinguishing the above listed fungi by tissue culture is crucial because disseminated Scopulariopsis is difficult to eradicate and associated with a high mortality rate in the immunocompromised BMT patient population.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Disseminated Scopulariopsis-culture is required to distinguish from other disseminated mould infections
- Creators
- Brian L STICK - University of Iowa, Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, Iowa City, IA, United StatesSindhura C REDDY - University of Iowa, Caver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, United StatesAmanda FRIEDRICHS - DeKalb Clinic, Dermatology, DeKalb, IL, United StatesMary Seabury Stone - University of Iowa, Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, Iowa City, IA, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of cutaneous pathology, Vol.37(6), pp.687-691
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell; Malden, MA
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2009.01358.x
- PMID
- 19615008
- ISSN
- 0303-6987
- eISSN
- 1600-0560
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2010
- Academic Unit
- Dermatology; Pathology
- Record Identifier
- 9984025455902771
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