title: Disseminated infection and colonization by Scedosporium prolificans: a review of 18 cases, 1990-1999.
abstract: Scedosporium prolificans infection was analyzed in 18 patients from whom the fungus was isolated during the period 1990-1999. Of these 18 patients, 12 had some predisposing factor and either unconfirmed infection or colonization, and 6 patients had confirmed disseminated infection: 4 patients with leukemia died, 1 patient with breast cancer who underwent autologous bone marrow transplantation survived, and 1 patient with advanced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome died, although the fungal infection did not seem to affect his clinical symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Microbiología, Complejo Hospitalario Donostia, San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Idigoras
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pérez-Trallero
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Piñeiro
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Larruskain
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: López-Lopategui
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: González
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008271:Mycetoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D021681:Scedosporium / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000302:isolation & purification