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Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023
Research Letter

Scedosporium Infection in Recipients of Kidney Transplants from Deceased Near-Drowning Donor

Devprakash Choudhary, Harsimran Kaur, Vanji Nathan Subramani, Smita Pattanaik, Shivakumar S. PatilComments to Author , Jasmine Sethi, Manharpreet Kaur, Priya Sreenivasan, Sheetal Thakur, Parul Gupta, Arvind Sekar, Sarbpreet Singh, Muralidharan Jayashree, Deepesh Kenwar, Shivaprakash M. RudramurthyComments to Author , and Ashish Sharma
Author affiliation: Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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Testing for Scedosporium aurianticum infection in 2 recipients of kidney transplants from deceased near-drowning donor, India. A, B) Potassium hydroxide mount of renal allograft tissue from transplant recipient 1 (A) and skin biopsy from transplant recipient 2 (B) showing septate hyphae. C) Culture on Sabouraud dextrose agar showing a greyish-white colony of S. aurianticum from recipients 1 (left) and 2 (right). D) Lactophenol cotton blue mount from a culture from recipient 1 showing smooth-walled sessile conidia on cylindrical or flask-shaped conidiogenous cells.

Figure. Testing for Scedosporium aurianticum infection in 2 recipients of kidney transplants from deceased near-drowning donor, India. A, B) Potassium hydroxide mount of renal allograft tissue from transplant recipient 1 (A) and skin biopsy from transplant recipient 2 (B) showing septate hyphae. C) Culture on Sabouraud dextrose agar showing a greyish-white colony of S. aurianticum from recipients 1 (left) and 2 (right). D) Lactophenol cotton blue mount from a culture from recipient 1 showing smooth-walled sessile conidia on cylindrical or flask-shaped conidiogenous cells.

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