Publication year
2003Source
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 9, 7, (2003), pp. 750-753ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Organization
Medical Microbiology
Nephrology
Surgery
Internal Medicine
Journal title
Clinical Microbiology and Infection
Volume
vol. 9
Issue
iss. 7
Page start
p. 750
Page end
p. 753
Subject
EBP 3: Effective Primary Care and Public Health; UMCN 4.1: Microbial pathogenesis and host defense; UMCN 5.4: Renal disordersAbstract
Scedosporium apiospermum is a mold that is increasingly being recognized as an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients, and treatment is complicated by intrinsic resistance to several antifungal agents. In our hospital, two cases of S. apiospermum infection occurring within 2 weeks were successfully treated with voriconazole. Since both patients were infected with an uncommon pathogen, a search for a common nosocomial source was performed. As environmental cultures yielded no S. apiospermum, and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting showed that the patients' strains were genotypically unrelated, we considered a common nosocomial source of S. apiospermum to be unlikely.
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