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Research Article

Generalized lymphadenopathy caused by Trichosporon asahii in a patient with Job's syndrome

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Pages 83-86 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Of the six species of Trichosporon known to cause human infections, T. asahii is the main agent of invasive trichosporonosis. We describe an unusual case of generalized lymphadenopathy due to T. asahii in a 10-year-old boy with Job's syndrome (markedly elevated IgE with eosinophilia). The diagnosis was based on the presence of blastic conidia and hyphal elements breaking into arthroconidia in biopsied tissue of the cervical lymph node and isolation of the causal agent T. asahii in pure culture. The patient responded initially to amphotericin B therapy, but the infection recurred within 4 weeks and did not respond to therapy of liposomal amphotericin B and 5-fluorocytosine for 10 days. The patient left the hospital against medical advice.

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