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A study by researchers at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, USP, described the first case of death from multidrug-resistant fungus infection in South America in a 17-year-old patient in São Paulo.
The case occurred at the end of last year and the research was published in the scientific journal Transplant Infectious Disease .
This fungus is usually found in soil, flower pots, sewage and polluted water. It was described for the first time in the scientific literature in 1974 and recognized as an invader of the human body in 1984.
Next, the fungus has been badociated with different infectious syndromes, which vary according to the sensitivity of the patient and of the contagion mode. and Spain where the cases of infection are related to the presence of the fungus (Lombrospora prolificans) more particularly in immunocompromised patients, are more frequently reported.
No Brazil had not been notified until last year. Considering that he is considered to be multiresistant, "there is in principle no adequate antifungal treatment to combat this infection," he explains.
Almeida Jr. also reports that for the general population, this fungus is safe. It does not affect immunocompetents with a healthy immune system.
Adapted from the USP source
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