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Case Reports
. 2017 Apr 25:8:75-76.
doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2017.04.009. eCollection 2017.

Acremonium pneumonia in an AIDS patient

Negin Niknam  1 , Siddhi Mankame  1 , Lawrence Ha  1 , Pranisha Gautam-Goyal  1
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Acremonium pneumonia in an AIDS patient

Negin Niknam et al. IDCases. .

Abstract

Acremonium is a saprophytic fungus mostly causing superficial skin, nail, or ocular infections after traumatic inoculation. However, it is being recently recognized as one of the opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients including neutropenia, malignancies, chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) and transplant recipients. To our knowledge there have been no reported cases of Acremonium infection, related to HIV or AIDS. We present a case of Acremonium pneumonia in a patient with no past medical history who was found to have AIDS.

Keywords: AIDS; Opportunistic infection; Ungal pneumonia.

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RUL opacities.
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Innumerable sub centimeter and miliary pulmonary nodules.
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