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Risk factors and mortality in invasive Rasamsonia spp. infection: Analysis of cases in the FungiScope® registry and from the literature.

Jannik StemlerJon Salmanton-GarcíaDanila SeidelBarbara Dudley AlexanderHartmut BertzMartin HoeniglRaoul HerbrechtLisa MeintkerArne MeißnerSibylle C MellinghoffErtan SalMarouan ZarroukPhilipp KöhlerOliver Andreas Cornely
Published in: Mycoses (2019)
Rasamsonia spp. are emerging fungi causing life-threatening infections, especially in immunocompromised and critically ill patients. Mortality is high. Treatment is challenging and clinicians dealing with this patient population should become aware of this infection constituting a medical emergency.
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