HEPATIC MUCORMYCOSIS IN A BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT WHO INGESTED NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE

This case report describes a bone marrow transplant recipient in whom hepatic zygomycosis developed after ingestion of multiple naturopathic medicines, Mucor was isolated from the patient's liver aspirate and f rom one of the naturopathic medicines. Arbitrary-primed polymerase cha in reaction (PCR) analyses were performed on the Mucor isolates from t he patient's liver aspirate and from his naturopathic medicine to see if they were genotypically related. Mucor indicus was the species iden tified in both the patient's liver aspirate and the naturopathic medic ine. Arbitrary-primed PCR analysis revealed that these isolates were g enotypically identical. We conclude that this bone marrow transplant r ecipient acquired hepatic mucormycosis from ingestion of a naturopathi c medicine containing Mucor.