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Case Reports
. 2021 Jan 18;8(7):ofab016.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab016. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Opportunistic Fungal Infection Associated With COVID-19

John Cafardi  1 , Douglas Haas  1 , Thomas Lamarre  1 , Judith Feinberg  1   2
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Case Reports

Opportunistic Fungal Infection Associated With COVID-19

John Cafardi et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. .

Abstract

We report 2 cases of severe coronavirus disease 2019 requiring prolonged hospitalization complicated by the late onset of opportunistic fungal infections, histoplasmosis, and cryptococcosis.

Keywords: COVID-19; Cryptococcus; Histoplasma; pulmonary infection.

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