Fatal chronic meningitis caused by Candida dubliniensis after liver transplantation

Fatal chronic meningitis caused by <em>Candida dubliniensis</em> after liver transplantation:

Publication date: Available online 17 December 2019

Source: Medical Mycology Case Reports

Author(s): Mariam Gheshlaghi, Jannik Helweg-Larsen

Abstract

We report a case of fatal chronic Candida dubliniensis meningitis complicated by severe hydrocephalus secondary to liver transplantation, in which diagnosis was considerably delayed.

Candida dubliniensis is a fungal opportunistic pathogen originally isolated from AIDS patients. It is also occasionally isolated from immunocompetent individuals. It is a dimorphic yeast of the genus Candida, very closely related to Candida albicans but forming a distinct phylogenetic cluster in DNA fingerprinting. Wikipedia

Scientific name: Candida dubliniensis

Higher classification: Candida

Order: Saccharomycetales

Rank: Species

Family: Debaryomycetaceae