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Case Reports
. 2002 Jul;40(7):2691-2.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.40.7.2691-2692.2002.

Fatal Saccharomyces cerevisiae aortic graft infection

Davey Smith  1 , David Metzgar, Christopher Wills, Joshua Fierer
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Case Reports

Fatal Saccharomyces cerevisiae aortic graft infection

Davey Smith et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2002 Jul.

Abstract

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a yeast commonly used in baking and a frequent colonizer of human mucosal surfaces. It is considered relatively nonpathogenic in immunocompetent adults (J. N. Aucott, J. Fayan, H. Grossnicklas, A. Morrissey, M. M. Lederman, and R. A. Salata, Rev. Infect. Dis. 12:406-411, 1990). We present a case of S. cerevisiae fungemia and aortic graft infection in an immunocompetent adult. This is the first reported case of S. cerevisiae fungemia where the identity of the pathogen was confirmed by rRNA sequencing.

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FIG. 1.
Phylogenetic dendrogram of 18S rRNA sequences showing that our isolate was identical to the ATCC strain of S. cerevisiae and differed from eight other closely related fungal species.
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