[Laboratory diagnosis of Paecilomyces infections]

Abstract

Preincubation of blood, sputum, breast milk, and feces samples from patients in heparin-treated medium 199 for 18-24 h at ambient temperature to preserve viability of Paecilomyces tissue form when transferring the fungi from host to ambient temperature regimen results in transformation of the fungi into mycelium form in favorable conditions, which fact permits elevating the isolation rate of this fungus from 1.5 to 44-73 percent.