Nguyen Caroline T, Raychaudhuri Siba P
Department of Medicine, VA Medical Center Sacramento and UC Davis School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology , Hospital Way, Mather, CA 95655, USA.
Indian J Dermatol. 2011 Jan;56(1):82-3. doi: 10.4103/0019-5154.77560.
Patients on anti-TNFα therapy are at increased risk for rare opportunistic infections. Here we are reporting a case of Scedosporium apiospermum infection in a patient treated with anti-TNF for 5 years. Patients on anti-TNFα need close follow-up and clinicians should be suspicious for atypical infections in these immunocompromised hosts.