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

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 du...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Eliana Coque-Burgos, Omar Espitia-Castro, Carolina Firacative
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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