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Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion
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Rodriguez-Leguizamon, Giovanni
Coque-Burgos, Eliana
Espitia-Castro, Omar
Firacative Ropero, Sandra Carolina
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2020-05-29
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Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Abstract
This is a fatal case of fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented pleural effusion as the only clinical presentation. Not only infections of the pleura are uncommon presentations of pulmonary cryptococcosis, but these infections due to non-C. neoformans species are extremely rare. This report places C. albidus on the growing number of disseminated mycosis-causing agents in diabetic patients.
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Pleural effusion , Cryptococcus , Fungemia , Diabetes Mellitus , type 2 , Elderly , Colombia
