Labastida-Mercado N, Galindo-Becerra LS, Schcolnik-Cabrera A, Fernández-Lara D, Sánchez-Sosa S, Ruiz-Argüelles GJ

Language: Spanish
References: 12
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ABSTRACT

Trichosporon asahii is a yeast usually found as a part of the normal microbiota on skin and gastrointestinal tract, with a pathogenic potential if the host is immunocompromised. We report a case of a median-age male patient with diagnosis of acute myelogenous leukemia who came to our clinic, where he began the Mexican non-ablative conditioning regimen to start a stem cell transplantation from his HLA-compatible female sibling, but complicates with graft-versus-host disease which was successfully treated, and then ended with a fatal pneumonic fungal infection due to T. asahii.

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