Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 5th, 2008
"The patient presented hyperglycemia starting postoperatively, with other complications such as cytomegalovirus infection. The associated predisposing factors and other implications are discussed," wrote M.O. Xavier and colleagues.
The researchers concluded: "Aspergillus niger seems to be a fungal species of low virulence that requires the presence of a severely immunosuppressed host to cause invasive disease."
Xavier and colleagues published their study in Revista da Sociedade...
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