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Cutaneous infection by Phomopsis longicolla in a renal transplant recipient from Guinea: first report of human infection by this fungus

Journal

TRANSPLANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 204-207

Publisher

WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2010.00570.x

Keywords

kidney transplantation; cutaneous fungal infection; chromoblastomycosis; dematiaceous fungi; Phomopsis longicolla

Funding

  1. Fundacion Mutua Madrilena
  2. Fundacion de Investigacion Biomedica

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P>We report the case of a 72-year-old female renal transplant recipient with a nodular lesion in the distal phalange of the third left finger produced by a dematiaceous fungus that was identified as Phomopsis longicolla. She was treated with itraconazole and terbinafine and later with voriconazole, without response. The patient underwent a surgical resection with lesion-free edge and continued on voriconazole. One year later she was asymptomatic and had not developed new lesions.

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