SUBCUTANEOUS PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS CAUSED BY PYRENOCHAETA ROMEROI IN A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT: A CASE REPORT

MANJUNATH KULKARNİ, TUKARAM JAMALE, NİWRUTTİ HASE, MİLİND UBALE, VAİBHAV KESKAR, PRADEEP KİGGAL JAGADİSH

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation - 2017;15(2):226-227

From the Department of Nephrology, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka

 

Infections are Achilles heel of kidney transplant recipients. Opportunistic fungal infections are increasingly recognized in these patients. We report a case of kidney transplant recipient with skin and soft tissue infection caused by Pyrenochaeta romeroi, a dematiaceous fungi. Infection by this organism is rare.