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Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials BioMed Central Case report Open Access Intestinal invasion and disseminated disease associated with Penicillium chrysogenum Adrian L Barcus†1, Steven D Burdette*†2 and Thomas E Herchline†2 Address: 1Department of Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA and 2Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA Email: Adrian L Barcus - adrian-barcus@; Steven D Burdette* - burdette08@; Thomas E Herchline - thomas.herchline@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 21 December 2005 Received: 24 October 2005 Accepted: 21 December 2005 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2005, 4:21 doi:10.1186/1476-0711-4-21 This article is available from: /content/4/1/21 © 2005 Barcus et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Penicillium sp., other than P. marneffei, is an unusual cause of invasive disease. These organisms are often identified in immunosuppressed patients, either due to human immunodeficiency virus or from immunosuppressant medications post-transplantation. They are a rarely identified cause of infection in immunocompet