Brain abscess caused by Phaeoacremonium parasiticum in an immunocompromised patient

Candice J McNeil; Robert F Luo; Hannes Vogel; Niaz Banaei; Dora Y Ho

doi:10.1128/JCM.00830-10

Brain abscess caused by Phaeoacremonium parasiticum in an immunocompromised patient

J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Mar;49(3):1171-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00830-10. Epub 2010 Dec 29.

Authors

Candice J McNeil¹, Robert F Luo, Hannes Vogel, Niaz Banaei, Dora Y Ho

Affiliation

¹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Grant S-101, Stanford, CA 94305-5107, USA. [email protected]

Abstract

Phaeoacremonium parasiticum is an environmental fungus usually associated with subcutaneous infections. We report the first documented case of central nervous system involvement with brain abscess formation in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease and review the literature on Phaeoacremonium parasiticum infections.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Ascomycota / isolation & purification*
Brain / pathology
Brain Abscess / diagnosis*
Brain Abscess / microbiology
DNA, Fungal / chemistry
DNA, Fungal / genetics
DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry
DNA, Ribosomal / genetics
Granulomatous Disease, Chronic / complications
Histocytochemistry
Humans
Immunocompromised Host
Male
Microscopy
Molecular Sequence Data
Mycoses / diagnosis*
Mycoses / microbiology
Phylogeny
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Young Adult

Substances

DNA, Fungal
DNA, Ribosomal

Associated data

GENBANK/HM486494
GENBANK/HM486495