First report of a case of meningitis caused by Cryptococcus adeliensis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia.
Cryptococcus adeliensis is a recently described new fungal species which has been isolated from decaying algae in Terre Adelie, Antarctica. We report the first known case of meningitis caused by C. adeliensis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation.
Rimek
Dagmar
D
Department of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany. drimek@tllv.thueringen.de
Haase
Gerhard
G
Lück
Andreas
A
Casper
Jochen
J
Podbielski
Andreas
A
D000328:Adult; D001483:Base Sequence; D003454:Cryptococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D016921:Meningitis, Fungal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D036102:Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous