Rigidoporus corticola Colonization and Invasive Fungal Disease in Immunocompromised Patients, United States

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 856 - 859
• Main Authors: Laga, Alvaro C, Crothers, Jessica W, Cañete-Gibas, Connie F, Wiederhold, Nathan P, Solomon, Isaac H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.04.2022; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Cancer; Case studies; Causes of; Colonization and Invasive Fungal Disease in Immunocompromised Patients, United States; corticola; Dispatch; filamentous basidiomycetes; Fungal infections; Fungi; Fungi, Phytopathogenic; Histopathology; Humans; Identification; Immunocompromised Host; Infectious diseases; Invasive Fungal Infections - diagnosis; Mass spectrometry; Mycoses; Mycoses - microbiology; Oxyporus; Patients; Phylogenetics; Polyporales; respiratory infections; Rigidoporus; Scientific imaging; Testing laboratories; United States - epidemiology; United States; United States > US; Oxyporus; opportunistic fungal infection; Rigidoporus; filamentous basidiomycetes; pathology; corticola; emerging fungal disease; United States; fungi; respiratory infections
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2804.211987

We report 2 cases of Rigidoporus corticola (Oxyporus corticola) infection in humans in the United States. Clinical manifestations consisted of angioinvasive fungal sinusitis in 1 patient and pulmonary intracavitary fungus ball in the other patient. These cases illustrate previously undescribed clinicopathologic manifestations of infection by this filamentous basidiomycete in humans.