Affiliation:
1. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
2. Complexo Hospitalar, Brasil
Abstract
Four cases of respiratory tract intracavitary colonization (fungus ball) due to Scedosporium apiospermum (teleomorph, Pseudallescheria boydii) are reported. The need for a careful search for anneloconidia, in order to establish the etiologic diagnosis in the clinical specimen by microscopy, is emphasized.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,General Medicine
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