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Case Reports
. 2004 Jan;42(1):481-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.1.481-483.2004.

First report of a case of meningitis caused by Cryptococcus adeliensis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia

Dagmar Rimek  1 , Gerhard Haase, Andreas Lück, Jochen Casper, Andreas Podbielski
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First report of a case of meningitis caused by Cryptococcus adeliensis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia

Dagmar Rimek et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Jan.

Abstract

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.

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Rooted phylogenetic tree inferred by analysis of 26S rDNA sequences using the neighbor-joining method based on a dissimilarity matrix corrected for multiple mutations per site according to Jukes and Cantor. Confidence values for individual branches were determined by bootstrap analysis based on 1,000 bootstrap trees that were generated from resampled characters. All calculations were performed with the software package TREECON, version 1.3b. Bootstrap values of ≥750 are displayed on the respective nodes. F., Filobasidiella; T., Trichosporon.
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