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Volume 31, Number 2—February 2025
Dispatch

Bjerkandera adusta Fungi as Causative Agent of Invasive Chronic Rhinosinusitis

Yuhei Kurata, Yoshifumi KimizukaComments to Author , Takashi Yaguchi, Kanshu Ito, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Yusuke Serizawa, Akira Kamiya, Takaaki Hamamoto, Taishi Sakima, Tomomi Tanigaki, Hiromi Edo, Yu Hongo, Akira Watanabe, Kazushi Suzuki, Terushige Toyooka, and Akihiko Kawana
Author affiliation: Author affiliations: National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan (Y. Kurata, Y. Kimizuka, K. Ito, T. Yamamoto, Y. Serizawa, T. Sakima, T. Tanigaki, H. Edo, Y. Hongo, K. Suzuki, T. Toyooka, A. Kawana); Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (T. Yaguchi, A. Watanabe); National Defense Medical College Hospital, Saitama (A. Kamiya, T. Hamamoto)

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Imaging from a biopsy specimen from a sinus lesion in a patient in Japan with invasive chronic rhinosinusitis caused by Bjerkandera adusta fungi and a Bjerkandera spp. mushroom found in nature. A) Mycelium of filamentous fungi (arrowhead) shown by hematoxylin-eosin staining. Scale bar indicates 20 μm. B) Filamentus fungi shown by Grocott staining. Scale bar indicates 20 μm. C) Mycelium of fungi grown on potato dextrose agar. Scale bar indicates 100 μm. D) Bjerkandera spp., a burnt-looking stemless mushroom that grows in forests. Photograph courtesy of the Tokyo Mushroom Club.

Figure 2. Imaging from a biopsy specimen from a sinus lesion in a patient in Japan with invasive chronic rhinosinusitis caused by Bjerkandera adusta fungi and a Bjerkandera spp. mushroom found in nature. A) Mycelium of filamentous fungi (arrowhead) shown by hematoxylin-eosin staining. Scale bar indicates 20 μm. B) Filamentus fungi shown by Grocott staining. Scale bar indicates 20 μm. C) Mycelium of fungi grown on potato dextrose agar. Scale bar indicates 100 μm. D) Bjerkandera spp., a burnt-looking stemless mushroom that grows in forests. Photograph courtesy of the Tokyo Mushroom Club.

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