Disseminated invasive aspergillosis associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection

: Disseminated aspergillosis is rare in patients not suffering from haematological disorders and myelo-suppression. We report a case of pulmonary cardiac and renal aspergillosis diagnosed at autopsy in a patient with chronic respiratory failure dying in the intensive care unit during an acute exacerbation. The role of risk factors associated with invasive aspergillosis in patients not suffering from myelosuppression is discussed (steroid therapy, chronic respiratory disease, concomitant viral or bacterial infection). The discovery in this patient of a pulmonary infection associated with mycoplasma pneumonia (the micro-organisms were found in necropsy specimens of pulmonary tissue) does not seem to have been reported before in the literature.