Fatal Prototheca wickerhamii bloodstream infection in a cardiac allograft recipient.

摘要

We read with great interest the recent comprehensive review by McMullan et al. concerning the potential pitfalls involved in diagnosis of algaemia due to Prototheca species presented as a report of an elderly cardiac transplant recipient who had a fatal case of protothecosis (1). We found the mention of prototheca species being associated with fungal coinfection to be of particular interest, and we share our recent experience with a similar patient for whom the diagnosis was made postmortem.