Affiliation:
1. Santa Casa, Brasil
2. Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil
Abstract
A case of peritonitis due to Scedosporium apiospermum in a boy undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis is reported. The finding of suggestive tissual form of the fungus in the effluent hastened the diagnosis of the infection.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,General Medicine
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