Verticillium infection--a rare cause of hepatosplenic abscesses

Chi-Jung Wu; Tsung Chain Chang; Hsin-Chun Lee; Tsai-Yun Chen; Nan-Yao Lee; Chia-Ming Chang; Po-Lin Chen; Mu-Jen Shih; Shu-Lin Peng; Wen-Chien Ko

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.012

Verticillium infection--a rare cause of hepatosplenic abscesses

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 Dec;62(4):427-9. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.012. Epub 2008 Aug 20.

Authors

Chi-Jung Wu¹, Tsung Chain Chang, Hsin-Chun Lee, Tsai-Yun Chen, Nan-Yao Lee, Chia-Ming Chang, Po-Lin Chen, Mu-Jen Shih, Shu-Lin Peng, Wen-Chien Ko

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan 704, Taiwan.

PMID: 18715734
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.012

Abstract

We report a rare case of hepatosplenic abscesses caused by Verticillium spp. in a 40-year-old female leukemic patient. Identification of the microorganism was based on amplification of the D1-D2 region of the large-subunit RNA gene from DNA extracted from paraffin sections of liver tissue, followed by sequencing of the amplified polymerase chain reaction product.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
Female
Humans
Liver Abscess / drug therapy
Liver Abscess / microbiology*
Liver Abscess / pathology
Mycoses / drug therapy
Mycoses / microbiology*
Mycoses / pathology
Splenic Diseases / drug therapy
Splenic Diseases / microbiology*
Splenic Diseases / pathology
Verticillium*

Substances

Antifungal Agents