Paecilomyces variotii as an Emergent Pathogenic Agent of Pneumonia.

Case Rep Infect Dis

Infectious Diseases Section, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Ramiro Barcelos 2350, Porto Alegre, RS 90035-903, Brazil.

Published: July 2013

Paecilomyces variotii is a commonly occurring species in air and food, and it is also associated with many types of human infections. Pneumonia due to Paecilomyces variotii has been rarely reported in the medical literature. The authors report a 48-year-old patient with refractory lymphoma who underwent allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation and developed pneumonia due to Paecilomyces variotii. They also review the published case reports of pneumonia caused by this fungus.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683431PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/273848DOI Listing

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