Use of DNA sequencing analysis to confirm fungemia due to Trichosporon dermatis in a pediatric patient.
This is the first reported case of human disease caused by Tricosporon dermatis, an organism recently transferred to the genus Trichosporon from Cryptococcus and now confirmed to be a human pathogen.
Gunn
Shelly R
SR
Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA. gunn@uthscsa.edu
Reveles
Xavier T
XT
Hamlington
Jeanette D
JD
Sadkowski
Lee C
LC
Johnson-Pais
Teresa L
TL
Jorgensen
James H
JH
D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000097:blood* / Q000235:genetics*; D021901:DNA, Intergenic / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics; D016469:Fungemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014250:Trichosporon / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity
D017931:DNA Primers; D004271:DNA, Fungal; D021901:DNA, Intergenic