A case report of pulmonary Botrytis sp. infection in an apparently healthy individual.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Botrytis species are well known fungal pathogens of various plants but have not been reported as human pathogens, except as allergenic precipitants of asthma and hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

Case presentation

The asymptomatic patient was referred because of a nodule revealed by chest X-ray. Computed tomography (CT) showed a cavitary nodule in the right upper lobe of the lung. He underwent wedge resection of the nodule, which revealed necrotizing granulomas and a fungus ball containing Y-shaped filamentous fungi, which was confirmed histopathologically. Culture of the specimen yielded white to grayish cotton-like colonies with black sclerotia. We performed multilocus gene sequence analyses including three single-copy nuclear DNA genes encoding glyceraldehyde-3-pho

SUBMITTER: Hashimoto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6679495 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature