PULMONARY ALLESCHERIASIS

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Abstract
Fatal pulmonary infection with Allescheria boydii occurred in a 37-year-old white male farmer with sarcoidosis of some 7 years duration. Many courses of antibiotics were given for 4 years and corticosteroids were administered for 3 years prior to death and were considered factors predisposing the patient to develop this infection. The organism was obtained from the sputum repeatedly during the last 10 months of life and was cultured from the lungs at autopsy in the asexual phase, Monosporium apiospermum. Growth in the sexual phase was later induced. This is the second known case report of A. boydii infection of the lungs.