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ReviewThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2021

Case Report: Cerebral Phaeohyphomycosis Due to Chaetomium strumarium in a Child with Visceral Heterotaxy Syndrome.

Bárbara Cárdenas Del Castillo, Jose Iván Castillo Bejarano, Oscar DeLaGarza-Pineda, José Ascención Arenas Ruiz, Hiram Villanueva Lozano, Rogelio de J Treviño-Rangel, Gloria González M, Joyce Marie García Martínez

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Review in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Bárbara Cárdenas Del CastilloDepartment of Pediatrics/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
Jose Iván Castillo BejaranoDepartment of Pediatrics/Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio González," Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
Oscar DeLaGarza-PinedaDepartment of Neurology, Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio González," Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
José Ascención Arenas RuizDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio González," Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
Hiram Villanueva LozanoDepartment of Microbiology, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
Rogelio de J Treviño-RangelDepartment of Microbiology; Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
Gloria González MDepartment of Microbiology; Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
Joyce Marie García MartínezHospital Epidemiology Surveillance Unit, Christus Muguerza Hospital Alta Especialidad, Obispado, Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León · MXHospital Universitario Dr José Eleuterio Gonzalez · MXUniversity of Monterrey · MX

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chaetomium sp. is a mold, member of the phylum Ascomycota. Clinical disease in humans is rare, particularly in children, for which only five cases have been reported. We report a 7-months-old female patient with a diagnosis of visceral heterotaxy syndrome who was admitted to a private center in Mexico. After two episodes of focal myoclonic seizure, a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a right porencephalic cyst and a right frontal abscess with ventriculitis. Seventy-two hours after temporal abscesses drainage procedure, the culture showed a rapidly growing pale white fungal colony. Sequencing of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and D1/D2 led to the identification of Chaetomium strumarium. Although Chaetomium sp. is a rare fungal infection in humans, clinicians should consider it as a plausible etiologic agent that can form brain abscess.

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Antifungal AgentsBrainCerebral PhaeohyphomycosisChaetomiumFemaleHeterotaxy SyndromeHumansInfantMagnetic Resonance ImagingMexicoMycosesAntifungal Agents

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PMID34814109
PMCPMC8832948
OpenAlexW3216278225

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