Peritonitis due to Thermoascus taitungiacus (Anamorph Paecilomyces taitungiacus).
The first case of human disease due to the thermophilic ascomycete Thermoascus taitungiacus (the teleomorph of Paecilomyces taitungiacus) is presented. T. taitungiacus was recovered from four dialysate fluid specimens of a 57-year-old patient undergoing chronic peritoneal dialysis. Identification was based upon cylindrical conidia, reddish orange nonostiolate ascomata, lack of growth at 20 degrees C, thermotolerance, and ascospores that appeared pale yellow, elliptical, thick walled, and predominately echinulate by light microscopy but irregularly verrucose by scanning electron microscopy.
Korzets
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Department of Nephrology, Golda Campus, Beilinson Campus, Rabin Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel.
Weinberger
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Chagnac
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Goldschmied-Reouven
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Rinaldi
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Sutton
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D001203:Ascomycota / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009181:Mycoses / Q000150:complications*; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000382:microbiology*