Kazachstania slooffiae: An unexpected journey to a human pleural sample
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Victor Mercier; Anaïs Lamy; Marie Desnos-Ollivier; Milène Sasso; Martin Mahul
- Source
- Journal of Medical Mycology = Journal de Mycologie Médicale
Journal of Medical Mycology = Journal de Mycologie Médicale, 2021, 31 (2), pp.101109. ⟨10.1016/j.mycmed.2020.101109⟩
Journal of Medical Mycology / Journal de Mycologie Médicale
Journal of Medical Mycology / Journal de Mycologie Médicale, Elsevier Masson, 2021, 31 (2), pp.101109. ⟨10.1016/j.mycmed.2020.101109⟩
- Subject
- Kazachstania slooffiae
medicine.medical_specialty
Pleural effusion
Direct examination
Acute respiratory distress
Gastroenterology
Candida slooffiae
Mass Spectrometry
law.invention
Hiatal hernia
03 medical and health sciences
law
Zoonoses
Internal medicine
medicine
DNA sequencing
Emerging fungal disease
[SDV.MP.MYC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Mycology
0303 health sciences
030306 microbiology
business.industry
Critically ill
medicine.disease
Mediastinitis
Intensive care unit
3. Good health
Infectious Diseases
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1156-5233
1773-0449
International audience; We report a case of a 50-year-old shepherd hospitalized in intensive care unit for hiatal hernia complicated by an occlusive syndrome. In post-surgery, an acute respiratory distress occurs due to mediastinitis with large pleural effusion. At the laboratory, direct examination of the pleural sample revealed the presence of pseudohyphae. Kazachstania slooffiae was identified by Mass Spectrometry and confirmed by DNA sequencing. This uncommon yeast has never been previously described in human infections. Although its pathogenicity is not well known, K. slooffiae should be considered in the case of critically ill patients.