 The causative agent of the infection was confirmed to be "A. carneus" using genomic sequencing of the ITS region.The patient was successfully treated with an appendectomy procedure and the triazole antifungal voriconazole, followed by fluconazole treatment until his neutropenia had resolved.The fungus was also susceptible to the anti-fungal drugs amphotericin B, itraconazole and posaconazole.