Gulden Ersoz, Feza Otag, Zayre Erturan, Gonul Aslan, Ali Kaya, Gürol Emekdas, Takashi Sugita
A mini epidemic of Dipodascus capitatus (teleomorph of Geotrichum capitatum) involving three cases is reported. The index case was pulmonary infection and a fulminant course of fungal infection, which resulted in the patient's death with acute myelocytic leukemia. In the other cases, the patients were simultaneously hospitalized, the first in the intensive care unit. In all cases, D. capitatus was identified in different samples (sputum, deep tracheal aspiration, blood, and urine) from each of the patients...
December 2004: Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases