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Disseminated Trichosporonosis with Trichosporon asahii
S Takamura1, T Oono, H Kanzaki
1Department of Dermatology, Okayama University Medical School, Shikata-chô 2-5-1, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
European Journal of Dermatology : EJD
|October 19, 1999
Abstract:
Trichosporon asahii fungemia was associated with multiple, purpuric, papular lesions on the abdomen and extremities in a 53-year-old man with acute myeloblastic leukemia. Histologically, budding yeasts were demonstrated in the dermis. The yeast-form fungus was identified as T. asahii.