TY - JOUR AU - Guarro, Josep AU - Kallas, Esper G. AU - Godoy, Patricio AU - Karenina, Anna AU - Gené, Josepa AU - Stchigel, Alberto AU - Colombo, Arnaldo Lopes T1 - Cerebral Aspergillosis Caused by Neosartorya hiratsukae, Brazil T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2002 VL - 8 IS - 9 SP - 989 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report the first case of infection by Neosartorya hiratsukae, an ascomycete in which the conidial state resembles Aspergillus fumigatus. The fungus caused a brain infection in a Brazilian woman, who died despite itraconazole treatment. Diagnosis was established by direct microscopic examination, computed tomographic scan, and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, and repeated cultures from the lesions. The in vitro antifungal susceptibility of the isolate is provided. KW - Aspergillus KW - mycoses KW - cerebral infection KW - antifungal agents KW - Brazil DO - 10.3201/eid0809.020073 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/9/02-0073_article ER - End of Reference