Acremonium Pneumonia: Case Report and Literature Review

Overview

Journal Tanaffos

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2015 Nov 4

PMID 26528372

Citations 2

Authors

Atefeh Fakharian

Atosa Dorudinia

Ilad Alavi Darazam

Davood Mansouri

Mohammad Reza Masjedi

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Abstract

Acremonium spp. cause human superficial infections including mycetoma, onychomycosis and keratitis. There are a few reports of systemic involvement in immunocompromised patients. However, isolated pulmonary infection in otherwise healthy hosts has never been reported in the literature. Herein, we report a 59 year-old diabetic man with non-resolving pneumonia due to Acremonium spp. and provide a consensus review of the published clinical cases of systemic and respiratory tract infections.

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