[Pulmonary adiaspiromycosis: casual finding in a patient who died of yellow fever].
During an outbreak of yellow fever (rural form of the infection) occurred recently in the State of Goiás, Brazil, a patient, with clinical manifestations suggestive of the infection, died in the University Hospital of Brasilia, DF, on the fifth day from admission. Postmortem examination revealed, microscopically, the characteristic alterations of the infection, and discovered in the lungs and hilar lymph nodes round microrganisms identified as adiaconidia of Emmonsia parva var. crescens.
Moraes
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Centro de Anatomia Patolológica, Hospital Universitário, Universitário de Brasília, Brasília, DF.
Gomes
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Vianna
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D002912:Chrysosporium; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015004:Yellow Fever / Q000150:complications*