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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2003, p. 4483-4485, Vol. 41, No. 9
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.9.4483-4485.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Disseminated Nosocomial Fungal Infection by Aureobasidium pullulans var. melanigenum: a Case Report

Giuseppe Bolignano1 and Giuseppe Criseo2*

Laboratorio di Microbiologia, Ospedali Riuniti di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria,1 Dipartimento di Scienze Microbiologiche, Genetiche e Molecolari, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy2

Received 23 December 2002/ Returned for modification 21 March 2003/ Accepted 10 June 2003

We report on a rare case of disseminated nosocomial fungal infection due to Aureobasidium pullulans var. melanigenum in a severely traumatized patient. Repeated blood and urine cultures yielded multicellular filamentous hyphal structures of varying size accompanied by budding yeast-like-cells of ellipsoidal morphology. The patient became asymptomatic after fluconazole therapy.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dipartimento di Scienze Microbiologiche, Genetiche e Molecolari, Università degli Studi di Messina, Salita Sperone, 31, 98166 Messina, Italy. Phone: 39-090-6765195. Fax: 39-090-392733. E-mail: gcriseo{at}unime.it.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2003, p. 4483-4485, Vol. 41, No. 9
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.9.4483-4485.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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