Bronchopulmonary Geotrichosis: A Review with Report of Four Cases

Webster, B. H.

doi:10.1378/chest.35.3.273

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“…This fits well the theory of the opportunistic nature of the fungus (WEBSTER 1959, CHANG & BUER-GER 1964, GHAMANDE etal. 1971, even if the isolation of Geotrichum candidum from the bronchopulmonary tract can provide very little more than a hint.…”

Section: Prevalence Of Geotrichum Candidumsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…Its presence in gastric juice appears to correlate fairly well with the bronchopulmonary occurrence. Of essential importance appear to be repeated isolations of the fungus in large numbers in the course of months and even of years in fungal cultures of sputum and perhaps specifically and concordantly of bronchial secretion (WEBSTER 1959, SYM -MERS 1966, ROSS et al 1966. In also the present study Geotrichum candidum was less frequently encountered in bronchial secretion than in sputum.…”

Section: Importance Of Fungal Culturessupporting

confidence: 53%

“…e.g., certain species of Trichosporon (which are true yeasts) , Gymnoascus, Auxarthron and Oospora species, as well as Coccidioides immitis which is extremely rare in the Scandinavien countries (WEBSTER 1959, MORENZ 1963, TORHEIM 1963, EMMONS 1967, FRAGNER 1969, ALANKO et al 1975. Like…”

Section: Possibilities Of Error In the Identification Of Fungimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The prognosis in geotrichosis appears to be good; with improvement in the patient's general physical condition it may even heal spontaneously (WEBSTER 1959, BADER 1965 . Medication of various kinds has been used in the treatment of bronchopulmonary geotrichosis.…”

Section: Geotrichosismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A family endemic of five cases of pulmonary geotrichosis has been described from Norway (THJbTTA & UR-DAL 1949). Some cases of Geotrichum septicaemia have also been published (WEBSTER 1959, CHANG & BUERGER 1964, SYMMER 1966. Reports of geotrichosis in animals are fewer in number than those of human cases (SCHIEFER & GEDEK 1969).…”

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Geotrichum candidum and pulmonary deseases

Kahanpää¹

1976

Karstenia

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Abstract. -Geotrichum candidum is a yeast-like filamentous fungus common in nature, which occasionally causes geotrichosis especially in the bronchopulmonary area.The basic material of this study consisted of fungal cultures on many different culture media, of 6801 morning sputa and 1289 other bronchopulmonary specimens from patients chiefly with pulmonary disease. For purpose of comparison fungal cultures were additionally made of 1495 upper respiratory tract and 1711 faeces and gastric juice samples. The mean incidences of occurrence of Geotrichum candid urn were 0.5 % in bronchial secretion, 1.8 % in morning sputum, 2.5 % in the upper respiratory tract, 2.6 % in gastric juice and 13 .2 % in faeces.

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Section: Prevalence Of Geotrichum Candidumsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Importance Of Fungal Culturessupporting

confidence: 53%