Sinusitis and frontal brain abscess in a diabetic patient caused by the basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune: case report and review of the literature

Mycoses. 2013 May;56(3):389-93. doi: 10.1111/myc.12040. Epub 2013 Jan 21.

Authors

Martin Hoenigl¹, Engelbert Aspeck, Thomas Valentin, Bettina Heiling, Katharina Seeber, Robert Krause, Heinz Stammberger, Alfred Beham, Walter Buzina

Affiliation

¹ Section of Infectious Diseases, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

PMID: 23331262
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12040

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Amphotericin B / pharmacology
Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
Antifungal Agents / pharmacology
Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Brain / microbiology
Brain Abscess / drug therapy
Brain Abscess / microbiology*
DNA, Fungal / genetics
Diabetes Mellitus / pathology*
Frontal Sinusitis / microbiology*
Frontal Sinusitis / surgery
Humans
Male
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Middle Aged
Mycoses / diagnosis
Mycoses / drug therapy
Mycoses / microbiology
Radiography
Schizophyllum / drug effects
Schizophyllum / genetics
Schizophyllum / isolation & purification*

Substances

Antifungal Agents
DNA, Fungal
Amphotericin B