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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2001, p. 720-724, Vol. 39, No. 2
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.2.720-724.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Peritonitis Due to Thermoascus taitungiacus (Anamorph Paecilomyces taitungiacus)

Asher Korzets,1,2 Miriam Weinberger,2,3,* Avry Chagnac,1,2 Anna Goldschmied-Reouven,2,4 Michael G. Rinaldi,5,6 and Deanna A. Sutton6

Department of Nephrology, Golda Campus,1 and Department of Internal Medicine C & Infectious Diseases, Beilinson Campus,3 Rabin Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Mycology Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer,4 and The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv,2 Israel, and Audie L. Murphy Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System,5 and Fungus Testing Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center,6 San Antonio, Texas

Received 21 August 2000/Returned for modification 19 September 2000/Accepted 1 December 2000

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°C, thermotolerance, and ascospores that appeared pale yellow, elliptical, thick walled, and predominately echinulate by light microscopy but irregularly verrucose by scanning electron microscopy.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Internal Medicine C & Infectious Diseases, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva 49100, Israel. Phone: 972-3-9378210. Fax: 972-3-9221605.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2001, p. 720-724, Vol. 39, No. 2
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.2.720-724.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.




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