Korzets A, Weinberger M, Chagnac A, Goldschmied-Reouven A, Rinaldi MG, Sutton DA. Peritonitis due to Thermoascus taitungiacus (Anamorph Paecilomyces taitungiacus).
J Clin Microbiol 2001;
39:720-4. [PMID:
11158134 PMCID:
PMC87803 DOI:
10.1128/jcm.39.2.720-724.2001]
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Abstract
The first case of human disease due to the thermophilic ascomycete Thermoascus taitungiacus (the teleomorph of Paecilomyces taitungiacus) is presented. T. taitungiacus was recovered from four dialysate fluid specimens of a 57-year-old patient undergoing chronic peritoneal dialysis. Identification was based upon cylindrical conidia, reddish orange nonostiolate ascomata, lack of growth at 20 degrees C, thermotolerance, and ascospores that appeared pale yellow, elliptical, thick walled, and predominately echinulate by light microscopy but irregularly verrucose by scanning electron microscopy.
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