Soft Tissue Infection with Diaporthe phaseolorum in Heart Transplant Recipient with End-Stage Renal Failure

Emerg Infect Dis. 2019 Sep;25(9):1748-1749. doi: 10.3201/eid2509.190768. Epub 2019 Sep 17.

Abstract

Diaporthe phaseolorum is a fungal plant parasite that has rarely been described as causing invasive human disease. We report a case of human soft tissue infection with Diaporthe phaseolorum in a heart transplant patient with end-stage renal failure in New Zealand.

Keywords: Diaporthe phaseolorum; antifungal drugs; end-stage renal failure; fungal infections; fungi; heart transplant recipient; immunosuppression; soft tissue infection; transplant.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Ascomycota / isolation & purification*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Heart Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic*
  • Leg
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycoses / diagnosis*
  • Mycoses / microbiology
  • New Zealand
  • Soft Tissue Infections / diagnosis*
  • Soft Tissue Infections / microbiology