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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2000, p. 395-397, Vol. 38, No. 1
0095-1137/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Microascus cinereus (Anamorph Scopulariopsis) Brain Abscess in a Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient

John W. Baddley,1,* Stephen A. Moser,1 Deanna A. Sutton,2 and Peter G. Pappas1

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama,1 and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas2

Received 30 June 1999/Returned for modification 31 July 1999/Accepted 6 October 1999

We report the first documented case of brain abscess due to the dematiaceous fungus Microascus cinereus, an organism common in soil and stored grain. M. cinereus was isolated from brain abscess material from a bone marrow transplant recipient. The patient responded well to treatment by amphotericin B lipid complex, itraconazole, and a craniotomy but later died from secondary complications caused by graft-versus-host disease.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Infectious Diseases, 1900 University Blvd., 229 THT, Birmingham, AL 35294-0006. Phone: (205) 934-5191. Fax: (205) 934-5155. E-mail: jbaddley{at}uabid.dom.uab.edu.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2000, p. 395-397, Vol. 38, No. 1
0095-1137/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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