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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, Japan (A. Kamiya, T. Hamamoto)

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Table 1

Blood test results obtained from a patient with Bjerkandera adusta caused invasive chronic rhinosinusitis, August 2022

Test Value
Total bilirubin, mg/dL 0.53
Aspartate aminotransferase, U/L 10
Alanine aminotransferase, U/L 7
Lactate dehydrogenase, U/L 202
Blood urea nitrogen, mg/dL 19
Creatinine, mg/dL 0.97
Sodium, mmol/L 137
Potassium, mmol/L 4.5
Chloride, mmol/L 99
C-reactive protein, mg/dL 0.8
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate, mm/h 105
β-D glucan, pg/mL 19
Candida antigen, U/mL <0.05
Aspergillus antigen cutoff index 0.3
Cryptococcus antigen Negative
Leukocyte, 103 cells/µL 9.4
Neutrophils, % 55.6
Lymphocytes, % 39
Monocytes, % 3.8
Eosinophils, % 1.4
Basophils, % 0.2
Hemoglobin, g/dL 10.2
Platelet, 103/µL 480

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