Recovery of Blastomyces dermatitidis from blood of a patient with disseminated blastomycosis.
This report describes the first well-documented reported case of the recovery of Blastomyces dermatitidis from the blood of a patient with disseminated blastomycosis. The isolate was recovered by using a lysis-centrifugation method and inhibitory mold agar after 6 days of incubation at 30 degrees C. One of six blood samples collected yielded a positive culture.
D000368:Aged; D001758:Blastomyces / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001759:Blastomycosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018805:Sepsis / Q000382:microbiology*