Latex beads coated with anti-Cryptococcus neoformans antibody were agglutinated by serum from a bone marrow transplant recipient having a disseminated infection caused by Trichosporon beigelii. The cryptococcal latex agglutination titer in the serum of the patient rose to 1:2,560 by the time of his death. Necropsy confirmed the disseminated Trichosporon infection and absence of C. neoformans. C...

Trichosporon asahii is a basidiomycetous yeast which causes white piedra and onychomycosis in immunocompetent hosts as well as various localized and disseminated invasive infections in immunodeficient hosts. Urinary tract infection caused by Trichosporon asahii is rare. One month after posterior urethral valve surgery a seven-month-old male child presented with fever, severe vomiting and crying...

Ragi Tapai is a starter used for the fermentation of cassava and glutinous rice to produce conventional fermented products, such as in Indonesia. contains several enzymes microbes that help process. The purpose this study was identify most potential amylolytic yeast in-vitro (amylolytic, cellulolytic, fermentative). GPA, YEA, APB, CMCA, GPACaCO3 were medium selection characterization. result sh...

Background and Objective: Trichosporon asahii are basidiomycetous yeast-like anamorphic organisms and presently that are widely distributed in nature and found predominantly in tropical and temperate areas. Now it has been considered as an emerging nosoocomial pathogen with increasing morbidity and mortality. Urinary tract infections due to Trichosporon asahii, are frequently associated with in...

The Trichosporon species are yeast-like opportunistic pathogens in immunocompromised patients. Trichosporon asahii infections have been reported in pediatric bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients. However, its incidence is low in the adult literature. A 52-year-old Chinese woman who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia received induction chemotherapy and underwent allogenic bone marrow tra...

Potentially pathogenic yeast strains from four genera, Candida, Cryptococcus, Torulopsis, and Trichosporon, were examined for killer activity and sensitivity using Saccharomyces and Torulopsis strains of known killer status. Tests were performed by using a streak method and by concentration of culture fluid by lyophilization. Of 236 strains examined, killers were found with low prevalence among...

The present study aimed to 1) determine the colonization rates of medically important Trichosporon species on normal perigenital skin and 2) determine the isolation rates of Trichosporon spp. isolated from the urine and catheters of Brazilian patients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The overall colonization rate of Trichosporon spp. was 11.15% (112 isolates). The most common spec...

OBJECTIVE To report the first case of disseminated Trichosporon spp infection in a newborn infant in Brazil, discussing a few aspects concerning management and treatment. A new spectrum of pathogens associated with severe infections in neonatal ICU has arisen, afflicting mainly newborn infants weighing less than 1,000 g at birth. Infection with Trichosporon asahii is rare and often fatal in thi...

Background.  Trichosporon species have emerged as an important non-Candida spp yeast pathogen in immunocompromised patients in recent decades; however, the systemic analysis of Trichosporon epidemiology has seldom been reported. Methods.  We reviewed 185 reported cases of Trichosporon fungemia from 1975 to 2014 in the English-language literature, and the epidemiology and prognostic factors of t...

phic yeasts characterized by the production of arthroconidia. Twenty-six species have been listed in the genus Trichosporon, which includes medically relevant species that cause opportunistic infections and induce summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis (SHP) (Ando et al., 1995; Guého et al., 1994, 1998; Middelhoven et al., 1999, 2000a, b; Sugita et al., 2001). Besides pathogens, Trichosporon ...