1. Invasive filamentous fungus infection with secondary cerebral vasculitis in a patient with no obvious immune suppression
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Giulia Pivetti, Nicola Altamura, Chiara Casarsa, Alessandro Agostino Occhipinti, Gianni Biolo, Giovanni Fernandes, Lorenza Mamolo, Filippo Mearelli, Annalisa Spalluti, Enrico Chendi, F., Mearelli, A., Occhipinti, N., Altamura, G., Fernande, G., Pivetti, E., Chendi, A., Spalluti, L., Mamolo, C., Casarsa, and Biolo, Gianni
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CNS leukocytoclastic vasculiti ,Microbiology (medical) ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Central nervous system ,Invasive mold infections ,Biology ,Fever of Unknown Origin ,Diagnosis, Differential ,Immune system ,Fatal Outcome ,medicine ,Biological fluids ,Humans ,Fever of unknown origin ,Vasculitis, Central Nervous System ,CNS leukocytoclastic vasculitis ,Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis ,Fungi ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Filamentous fungus ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Infectious Diseases ,Italy ,Immunology ,Female ,Cerebral vasculitis - Abstract
SummaryInvasive mold infections represent an emerging and important diagnostic challenge, especially in immunocompetent patients when microscopy and cultures of the biological fluids remain negative. A central nervous system localization is not common and the clinical presentation is aspecific.
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- 2014
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