Disseminated trichosporonosis in a burn patient: meningitis and cerebral abscess due to Trichosporon asahii.

Abstract

A 44-year-old diabetic female presented to a hospital in Jamaica with thermal burns.

Trichosporon asahii was isolated from facial wounds, sputum, and a meningeal swab.

Dissemination of the fungus was demonstrated in stained histological sections of the meninges and a brain abscess at autopsy.

Pure growth of the fungus from patient samples submitted and an environmental isolate obtained from a wash basin in the hospital supported the diagnosis.

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Subjects

• Adult
• Autopsy
• Brain Abscess
• Burns
• Diabetes Complications
• Fatal Outcome
• Female
• Humans
• Jamaica
• Meningitis, Fungal
• Microbiological Techniques
• Trichosporon
• Trichosporonosis

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Authors

• Orville D Heslop
• May-Phyo Nyi Nyi
• Sean P Abbott
• Lois E Rainford
• Daphney M Castle
• Kathleen C M Coard

Publication date

2011-11-29

Journal

Journal topics

• Microbiology

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Journal of clinical microbiology

Department of Microbiology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. orville.heslop [at] uwimona.edu.jm

Release reference

J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Dec;49(12):4405-8

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