Unusual Presentation of Subcutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis by Alternaria alternate
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Dermatology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1013-9087,2005-3894
DOI: 10.5021/ad.2019.31.5.563