Disseminated Fusarium solani infection with cutaneous nodules in a bone marrow transplant patient.
Fusarium is a ubiquitous fungus that commonly colonizes ulcerated, burned, or traumatized skin and may cause keratitis and onychomycosis in healthy hosts. Serious disseminated infection due to Fusarium has been reported with increasing frequency in immunocompromised patients. We describe a bone marrow transplant patient who developed fungal septicemia and disseminated skin nodules due to Fusarium solani. Fusarium should be recognized as a potential cause of deep fungal infection in immunocompromised patients.
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Department of Dermatology, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612.
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Nelson
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Kaplan
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005670:Fusarium; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D015479:Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000150:complications*; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000150:complications