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Cutaneous Aspergillus ustus in a lung transplant recipient: emergence of a new opportunistic fungal pathogen.

Vagefi PA, Cosimi AB, Ginns LC, Kotton CN

Division of Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.

Opportunistic fungal infections remain a significant complication in immunosuppressed patients, especially those having undergone solid-organ transplantation. We report a 39-year-old patient who represents the second case of cutaneous Aspergillus ustus infection in a solid-organ transplant recipient, and the first documented case after lung transplantation. The patient's cutaneous lower extremity aspergillosis responded to a combination of intravenous liposomal amphotericin B, caspofungin and topical terbinafine cream, with a concomitant reduction in immunosuppression. A. ustus is an emerging opportunistic fungal pathogen in transplant recipients.

Published 11 January 2008 in J Heart Lung Transplant, 27(1): 131-4.
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