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J Med Microbiol 58 (2009), 381-385; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.005280-0
© 2009 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Case Report

Fatal Ophiostoma piceae infection in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Martin Bommer1, Marie-Luise Hütter1, Stephan Stilgenbauer1, G. Sybren de Hoog2, Z. Wilhelm de Beer3 and Nele Wellinghausen4

1 Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Germany

2 Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS), Utrecht, The Netherlands

3 Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, South Africa

4 Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital of Ulm, Germany

Correspondence
Nele Wellinghausen
nele.wellinghausen{at}web.de

Received July 23, 2008
Accepted November 17, 2008

We report to our knowledge the first case of human infection with Ophiostoma piceae. This Sporothrix schenckii-related fungus caused disseminated infection involving the lung and the brain in a patient with lymphoblastic lymphoma. The case emphasizes the significance of molecular techniques for identification of rare fungi in the clinical microbiology laboratory.

Abbreviations: CT, computed tomography.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the internal transcribed spacer and β-tubulin sequences of the Ophiostoma piceae isolate are FJ230885 and FJ230886, respectively.

A neighbour-joining tree showing the relationship of the O. piceae isolate obtained in this study with Sporothrix schenckii is available with the online version of this paper.






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