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A female patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) developed pulmonary aspergillosis with staphylococcal pneumonia and hepatic candidiasis.Aspergillus terreus, which is a rare causative organism of pulmonary aspergilosis, was identified from a pulmonary lesion by culture. The aleurioconidium production, a characeristic of the genusAspergillus sect.terrei, was demonstrated on short and irregular hyphal features in tissue sections. This report is the first of a combined case of pulmonary aspergillosis due toA. terreus with infections caused by other microorganisms.
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Kimura, M., Udagawa, Si., Shoji, A. et al. Pulmonary aspergillosis due toAspergillus terreus combined with staphylococcal pneumonia and hepatic candidiasis. Mycopathologia 111, 47–53 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02277302
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