Fusarium brain abscess

Case report

Gary K. Steinberg M.D., Ph.D.1, Richard H. Britt M.D., Ph.D.1, Dieter R. Enzmann M.D.1, Jonathan L. Finlay M.B., Ch.B.1, and Ann M. Arvin M.D.1
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  • 1 Divisions of Neurosurgery, Neuropathology, Neuroradiology, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, and Pediatric Infectious Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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✓ The common soil fungus, Fusarium, is rarely pathogenic in man but occasionally causes serious disease, particularly in immunocompromised hosts. A case is reported of Fusarium brain abscess and meningitis occurring in a patient with chronic infectious mononucleosis syndrome and immunodeficiency. The patient died despite aspiration of the abscess and treatment with amphotericin B. This case demonstrates the importance of identifying the offending pathological organism through abscess aspiration in immunocompromised patients.

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