Trichosporon pullulans (Lidner) Diddens & Lodder isolated from the oral cavity of AIDS patient

Neves, Rejane PereiraCavalcanti, Maria Auxiliadora de QueirozChaves, Guilherme MaranhãoMagalhães, Oliane Maria Correia

Trichosporon has been reported as a remarkable emerging pathogen and usually occurs in imunodrepressed patients. An oropharyngeal secretion sample was collected from a patient with AIDS, at the Sector of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Osvaldo Cruz University Hospital, Pernambuco State, Brazil. No yeast cells or arthroconidia were observed in the direct exam, but a culture was positive for Trichosporon pullulans, which is being reported in an AIDS patient for the first time.

1. Trichosporon pullulans
2. AIDS