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Volume 25, Number 9—September 2019
Research Letter

Soft Tissue Infection with Diaporthe phaseolorum in Heart Transplant Recipient with End-Stage Renal Failure

Julia C. Howard1Comments to Author , Kevin Chen2, Anja Werno, and Sarah Metcalf
Author affiliations: Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand (J.C. Howard, A. Werno); Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch (K. Chen, S. Metcalf)

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Soft tissue infection with Diaporthe phaseolorum in a 46-year-old man from Samoa, resident in New Zealand, who was a heart transplant recipient with end-stage renal failure. Histological examination of a cystic lesion over the proximal medial tibia showed reactive fibroblastic proliferation and numerous long-branching fungal septate hyphae of uneven widths. Periodic acid–Schiff staining; original magnification ×40. Photograph provided by Frederica Loghides, Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cant

Figure. Soft tissue infection with Diaporthe phaseolorum in a 46-year-old man from Samoa, resident in New Zealand, who was a heart transplant recipient with end-stage renal failure. Histologic examination of a cystic lesion over the proximal medial tibia showed reactive fibroblastic proliferation and numerous long-branching fungal septate hyphae of uneven widths. Periodic acid–Schiff staining; original magnification ×40. Photograph provided by Frederica Loghides, Department of Anatomic Pathology, Canterbury Health Laboratories.

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1Current affiliation: Waikato District Health Board, Hamilton, New Zealand.

2Current affiliation: Pathlab Bay of Plenty, Tauranga, New Zealand.

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