Disseminated trichosporonosis in a burn patient: meningitis and cerebral abscess due to Trichosporon asahii.
A 44-year-old diabetic female presented to a hospital in Jamaica with thermal burns. Trichosporon asahii was isolated from facial wounds, sputum, and a meningeal swab. Dissemination of the fungus was demonstrated in stained histological sections of the meninges and a brain abscess at autopsy. Pure growth of the fungus from patient samples submitted and an environmental isolate obtained from a wash basin in the hospital supported the diagnosis.
Department of Microbiology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. orville.heslop@uwimona.edu.jm
Orville D
OD
Heslop
May-Phyo
MP
Nyi Nyi
Sean P
SP
Abbott
Lois E
LE
Rainford
Daphney M
DM
Castle
Kathleen C M
KC
Coard
D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications*; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007563:Jamaica; D016921:Meningitis, Fungal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008828:Microbiological Techniques / Q000379:methods; D014250:Trichosporon / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D060586:Trichosporonosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology