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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2003, p. 5817-5819, Vol. 41, No. 12
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5817-5819.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Invasive Fungal Sinusitis Caused by Scytalidium dimidiatum in a Lung Transplant Recipient

James J. Dunn,1,2* Michael J. Wolfe,3 Joel Trachtenberg,4 John D. Kriesel,4 Richard R. Orlandi,3 and Karen C. Carroll1,2,{dagger}

ARUP Laboratories, Inc.,1 Departments of Pathology,2 Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,3 Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah4

Received 12 June 2003/ Returned for modification 28 July 2003/ Accepted 19 September 2003

We describe a case of invasive fungal sinusitis caused by Scytalidium dimidiatum in a lung transplant recipient. Treatment was complicated by renal failure with amphotericin B therapies. Following 6 months of voriconazole treatment, the patient remained radiographically and clinically stable for a short time before dying of respiratory failure precipitated by graft rejection.

* Corresponding author. Present address: Department of Pathology, Cook Children's Medical Center, 801 Seventh Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76104. Phone: (682) 885-6475. Fax: (682) 885-4316. E-mail: jdunn{at}cookchildrens.org.

{dagger} Present address: Microbiology Division, Department of Pathology, Meyer B-193, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21087-7093.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2003, p. 5817-5819, Vol. 41, No. 12
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5817-5819.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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