Paecilomyces variotiias an Emergent Pathogenic Agent of Pneumonia

摘要

Paecilomyces variotiiis a commonly occurring species in air and food, and it is also associated with many types of human infections. Pneumonia due toPaecilomyces variotiihas been rarely reported in the medical literature. The authors report a 48-year-old patient with refractory lymphoma who underwent allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation and developed pneumonia due toPaecilomyces variotii. They also review the published case reports of pneumonia caused by this fungus.