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Back Pain in a 23-Year-Old Male With X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease.

Michelle C SaboMichela BlainDenise McCullochHeather L GlasgowDhruba J SenguptaThang LeBrad T CooksonPaul S PottingerW Conrad LilesSusan M Graham
Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2019)
Patients with chronic granulomatous disease are at increased risk for invasive aspergillosis. Cryptic Aspergillus species are being increasingly recognized as distinct causes of infection in this population. In this study, we describe the first case of Aspergillus udagawae vertebral osteomyelitis in a patient with X-linked chronic granulomatous disease.
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