Infectious Disease Compendium

Prototheca

Microbiology

Freshwater algae. Prototheca wickerhamii and Prototheca zopfii.

Epidemiologic Risks

Exposure to freshwater often with trauma.

Syndromes

Acute skin lesions (PubMed) and disseminated disease in solid organ transplants (PubMed) and other poor hosts (Review).

Colitis in inherited Caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 9 (CARD9) deficiency (PubMed).

Treatment

Azoles are used and amphotericin B (perhaps the best) (PubMed).

Notes

Last update: 08/12/18