TOPIC: Chest Infections TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Trichosporon asahii is a fungal species that ubiquitous in nature increasingly being recognized as life-threatening pathogen has no effective antifungal therapy. We present unique case of Asahii and Mycobacterium Kansasii necrotizing pneumonia with pulmonary abscesses empyema. CASE PRESENTATION: Patient 64-year-ol...

White piedra is a superficial mycosis caused by the genus Trichosporon. It is characterized by nodules on the hair shaft. Pediculosis capitis is caused by Pediculus humanus var. capitis of the suborder Anoplura. Whereas pediculosis is a common infestation, clinical reports of white piedra are rare. Molecular biology procedures identified T. inkin as the agent of white piedra in this case report...

Trichosporon fungemia is a life-threatening opportunistic infection that is increasing in frequency. Invasive disease occurs almost exclusively in immunocompromised hosts, particularly in neutropenic adults with hematological malignancies and uncommonly in children. We report the case of a pediatric patient where disseminated trichosporonosis progressed while on micafungin, between treatments w...

We present a 41 yr old male, who died of respiratory failure due to infiltration of Trichosporon beigelii (cutaneum) into the pulmonary interstitial spaces with systemic dissemination. Busulphan-induced leucopenia in the chronic phase of chronic myelogenous leukaemia had progressed before this infection developed. In leukaemic patients with profound leucopenia, interstitial pneumonitis due to T...

This study describes the third known human case of an invasive infection caused by Trichosporon loubieri. The 21-year-old patient was suffering from a third relapse of T-lymphoblastic lymphoma and had been in pancytopenia for three months when she developed a blood trichosporonosis. The patient died 10 days later, despite intravenous voriconazole therapy. Final unequivocal identification of the...

Trichosporon asahii is one of the important opportunistic pathogenic fungi. Here, we first report the draft nuclear chromosome genome sequence and mitochondrial genome sequence of T. asahii CBS 2479, which is a standard strain of T. asahii that was isolated from a progressive psoriatic lesion. COG analysis predicted that 3,131 genes were assigned to 23 functional categories and that 628 genes w...