Possible Tyromyces fissilis (Basidiomycota, Polyporales) co-infection in a lung transplant recipient

0452167 - MBÚ 2016 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Chrenková, V. - Kolařík, Miroslav - Hubáček, P.
Possible Tyromyces fissilis (Basidiomycota, Polyporales) co-infection in a lung transplant recipient.
Folia Microbiologica. Roč. 60, č. 1 (2015), s. 33-35. ISSN 0015-5632. E-ISSN 1874-9356
Institutional support: RVO:61388971
Keywords : fungal diseases * Tyromyces fissilis * cystic fibrosis
Subject RIV: EE - Microbiology, Virology
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Invasive fungal diseases are severe complication of the lung transplant patients' follow-up as they are increasing the risk of rejection. We report a patient who developed possible Tyromyces fissilis co-infection during graft rejection episode 2 years after bilateral lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis. The fungus was detected using conventional culture methods as a filamentous basidiomycete and further placed to T. fissilis species based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA sequences. The patient was treated according to the susceptibility testing results by voriconazole in combination with the anti-rejection therapy and recovered completely within few weeks. This is, to our knowledge, the first published case report of T. fissilis as a possible causative agent of an infection/rejection episode in a lung transplant recipient.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0253183