Trichoderma viride infection in a liver transplant recipient.
A liver transplant recipient developed infection of a perihepatic haematoma due to Trichoderma viride. Before the infection was diagnosed, the patient received intense immuno-suppressive and prolonged antibacterial and anti-fungal therapies. Although the death of the patient was not directly related to the fungal infection, abundant quantities of this pathogen were recovered in the haematoma at post-mortem examination, despite previous surgical removal and treatment with amphotericin B and fluconazole.
Jacobs
F
F
Infectious Diseases Clinic, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Byl
B
B
Bourgeois
N
N
Coremans-Pelseneer
J
J
Florquin
S
S
Depré
G
G
Van de Stadt
J
J
Adler
M
M
Gelin
M
M
Thys
J P
JP
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D009181:Mycoses / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014242:Trichoderma / Q000302:isolation & purification*