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a. CT Chest with contrast on admission. b. CT chest without contrast on hospital day 20.
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On admission, a chest CT angiogram showed bibasilar consolidations (Fig. 1-a). Repeat CT scan of the chest without contrast demonstrated bilateral upper lobe cavities which were not present on her prior CT scan (Fig. 1-b).
BAL fungal culture with T. asahii growing on Sabouraud dextrose agar. Courtesy of Mycology Laboratory, University of California, Irvine.
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Fungal culture grew yeast with hyphae and arthroconidia identified by MALDI- TOF as T. asahii (Fig. 2, Fig. 3).