Cryptococcal cellulitis in a renal transplant patient

Touch Biopsy: A Simple and Rapid Method for the Diagnosis of Systemic Mycoses with Skin Dissemination in HIV-Infected Patients

“…Skin lesions are caused by dissemination from the blood or the central nervous system. Serotype D is a common cause of cutaneous cryptococcal infection; however, this type of infection has also been reported to be caused by serotype A (Baumgarten et al, 2004;Pasqualotto et al, 2005). Molecular studies on the presently studied strain of Cryptococcus have published elsewhere.…”

Primary Cryptococcal Cellulitis in a Lung Transplant Recipient

“…A review of all 23 published patient reports is listed in Table 1. 2,5,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] The present case report is the third on cryptococcal cellulitis after lung transplantation. At presentation, cryptococcal cellulitis is often mistaken for bacterial cellulitis.…”

A Review of Diagnostic Methods for Invasive Fungal Diseases: Challenges and Perspectives

“…In this case, the patient presented with skin lesions. Atypical disease presentations may result in poor outcomes because of delays in diagnosis and treatment; nevertheless, skin lesions are a well-described manifestation in renal transplant patients [ 28 , 30 – 32 ]. Skin lesions in cryptococcosis are pleomorphic and a biopsy is crucial for diagnosis, facilitating diagnosis of this potentially lethal condition.…”