Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion

Giovanni Rodríguez-Leguizamón; Eliana Coque-Burgos; Omar Espitia-Castro; Carolina Firacative

doi:10.1590/s1678-9946202062034

Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion

Authors

Giovanni Rodríguez-Leguizamón Hospital Universitario Mayor-Méderi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5683-8414
Eliana Coque-Burgos Compensar EPS, Laboratorio Clínico https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5189-5372
Omar Espitia-Castro Hospital Universitario Mayor-Méderi
Carolina Firacative Universidad del Rosario, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Grupo de Estudios en Microbiología Traslacional y Enfermedades Emergentes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7547-5172

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946202062034

Keywords:

Pleural effusion, Cryptococcus, Fungemia, Diabetes Mellitus, type 2, Elderly, Colombia

Abstract

This is a fatal case of fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented pleural effusion as the only clinical presentation. Not only infections of the pleura are uncommon presentations of pulmonary cryptococcosis, but these infections due to non-C. neoformans species are extremely rare. This report places C. albidus on the growing number of disseminated mycosis-causing agents in diabetic patients

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Published

2020-07-20

Issue

Vol. 62 (2020)

Section

Case Report

How to Cite

Rodríguez-Leguizamón, G., Coque-Burgos, E., Espitia-Castro, O., & Firacative, C. (2020). Fatal fungaemia due to Cryptococcus albidus in an elderly diabetic woman presenting with pleural effusion. Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De São Paulo, 62, e34. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946202062034

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