Back Pain in a 23-Year-Old Male With X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease

Michelle C Sabo; Michela Blain; Denise McCulloch; Heather L Glasgow; Dhruba J Sengupta; Thang Le; Brad T Cookson; Paul S Pottinger; W Conrad Liles; Susan M Graham

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz449

Back Pain in a 23-Year-Old Male With X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Oct 18;6(11):ofz449. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz449. eCollection 2019 Nov.

Authors

Michelle C Sabo¹, Michela Blain¹, Denise McCulloch¹, Heather L Glasgow², Dhruba J Sengupta², Thang Le³, Brad T Cookson², Paul S Pottinger¹, W Conrad Liles^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
² Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁴ Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁵ Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁶ Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Abstract

Patients with chronic granulomatous disease are at increased risk for invasive aspergillosis. Cryptic Aspergillus species are being increasingly recognized as distinct causes of infection in this population. In this study, we describe the first case of Aspergillus udagawae vertebral osteomyelitis in a patient with X-linked chronic granulomatous disease.

Keywords: Aspergillus species; chronic granulomatous disease; osteomyelitis.

Publication types

Case Reports