First Case Report of an Unusual Fungus ( Associated with a Pulmonary Infection in a Drug Injection User

• Main Authors: Hiba A Al Dallal (Author), Siddharth Narayanan (Author), Christopher M Jones (Author), Shawn R Lockhart (Author), James W Snyder (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In contrast to a robust literature on known pathogenic fungi such as Cryptococcus and Aspergillus species that cause pulmonary infections, reports of the uncommon genus Sporopachydermia causing infections are very limited. We present the first case report describing the fungus, Sporopachydermia lact...