Firstcase of pneumonia-parapneumonic effusion due to Trichoderma longibrachiatum
Vasiliki Epameinondas Georgakopoulou,
Despoina Melemeni,
Konstantinos Mantzouranis,
Christos Damaskos,
Aikaterini Gkoufa,
Serafeim Chlapoutakis,
Nikolaos Garmpis,
Anna Garmpi,
Pagona Sklapani,
Nikolaos Trakas,
Xanthi Tsiafaki
Affiliations
Vasiliki Epameinondas Georgakopoulou
Pulmonology Department, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece; Corresponding author at: Pulmonology Department, Laiko General Hospital, 17 Agiou Thoma Street, 11527, Athens, Greece.
Despoina Melemeni
1st Pulmonology Department Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, Greece
Konstantinos Mantzouranis
1st Pulmonology Department Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, Greece
Christos Damaskos
Second Department of Propedeutic Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; N.S. Christeas Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Aikaterini Gkoufa
First Department of Internal Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Serafeim Chlapoutakis
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Agios Savvas Hospital, Athens, Greece
Nikolaos Garmpis
Second Department of Propedeutic Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; N.S. Christeas Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Anna Garmpi
First Department of Propedeutic Internal Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Pagona Sklapani
Department of Cytology, Mitera Hospital, Athens, Greece
Nikolaos Trakas
Department of Biochemistry, Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, Greece
Xanthi Tsiafaki
1st Pulmonology Department Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, Greece
Trichoderma longibrachiatum is a fungus belonging to the genus Trichoderma. Trichoderma longibrachiatum is not thought as a pathogenic for healthy individuals. However, it has the ability to produce toxic peptides and extracellular proteases and has been described to cause invasive infections in immunocompromised hosts. Trichoderma longibrachiatum has been reported as the causative microorganism of lung infections, skin infections, sinus infections, otitis, stomatitis endocarditis, pericarditis, gastrointestinal infections, mediastinitis and peritonitis. We report the first case of pneumonia with parapneumonic effusion in an old woman with diabetes mellitus due to Trichoderma longibrachiatum.
