Allergic Sinusitis
• A 52-year-old woman
was diagnosed with chronic sinusitis
• She had history
of atopy and asthma required corticosteroids
• She had eosinophilia
and increased serum IgE
• She underwent
bilateral endoscopic maxillotomy & ethmoidectomy
• Nasal tissue was
sent to microbiology for C&S
• Initial Gram stain
results were reported as yeast from microbiology
• Further testing
of yeast looking cells revealed consistency with mould
• Culture grew fungus
identified as Trichoderma species
• Speciated as Trichoderma
longibracheatum by UAMC & Herbarium
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