A serendipitous isolate of Histoplasma capsulatum.
This is a report of an unexpected laboratory diagnosis of Histoplasma capsulatum. The fungus was isolated from an acute cellulitic lesion on the forearm of an elderly male patient with a functioning renal transplant. The patient resides within the environs of Brisbane and has not travelled outside Australia. We consider the isolation of H. capsulatum from a rare site in a patient resident in a non-endemic area indicative of a latent opportunistic infection in an immunocompromised patient.
Rao
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Queensland Medical Laboratory, Brisbane.
Forgan-Smith
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Ritchie
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Sakellaris
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Miller
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Arghyros
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D006658:Histoplasma / Q000166:cytology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged