Emergomyces canadensis, a dimorphic fungus causing fatal systemic human disease in North America

Ilan S. Schwartz; Stephen Sanche; Nathan P. Wiederhold; Thomas F. Patterson; Lynne Sigler

doi:10.3201/eid2404.171765

Emergomyces canadensis, a dimorphic fungus causing fatal systemic human disease in North America

Ilan S. Schwartz
, Stephen Sanche
, Nathan P. Wiederhold
, Thomas F. Patterson
, Lynne Sigler

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We report 4 patients in North America with disease caused by Emergomyces canadensis, a newly proposed species of pathogenic dimorphic fungus. Affected persons were immunocompromised; lived in Saskatchewan, Colorado, and New Mexico; and had systemic disease involving blood, skin, cervix, lung, and lymph node. Two cases were fatal.

Idioma original	English (US)
Páginas (desde-hasta)	758-761
Número de páginas	4
Publicación	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volumen	24
N.º	4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2404.171765
Estado	Published - abr 2018

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Microbiology (medical)
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