Ann Lab Med.  2014 Jul;34(4):328-331. 10.3343/alm.2014.34.4.328.

First Case of Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis Caused by Cryptococcus arboriformis

• Im H
• Chae JD
• Yoo M
• Lee SY
• Song EJ
• Sung SA
• Hwang YH
• Shin JH
• Cho YU

• KMID: 1791944
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2014.34.4.328

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Amphotericin B/therapeutic use
Antifungal Agents/pharmacology/therapeutic use
Cryptococcosis/*diagnosis/drug therapy/microbiology
Cryptococcus/classification/drug effects/*isolation & purification
DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry/metabolism
Fluconazole/therapeutic use
Humans
Male
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Middle Aged
Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory
Peritonitis/*diagnosis/etiology
Phylogeny
Saccharomyces cerevisiae/drug effects/isolation & purification
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Amphotericin B
Antifungal Agents
DNA, Ribosomal
Fluconazole

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Saline mount of peritoneal dialysate showing budding yeast growing on blood agar plate for 48 hr at 35℃ (×1,000).

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  Fig. 2 Phylogenetic trees using neighbor-joining analysis of (A) the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) regions and (B) the D1/D2 region of the ribosomal DNA gene of Cryptococcus arboriformis (GenBank accession no. AB260936) and the strain EMC 2010-8.

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