Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis caused by Alternaria spp.: A case report
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Cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by Alternaria infectoria.
Organ transplant recipients under immunosuppressive therapy have a highly increased risk of acquiring unusual opportunistic fungal infections. Therefore, diagnostics for uncharacteristic inflammatory skin lesions in transplant recipients must include an appropriate search for fungi. We recently diagnosed a renal transplant recipient with a cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis due to Alternaria infectori...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Mycology Case Reports
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2211-7539
DOI: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.12.001