Invasive Infection Due to Apophysomyces elegans in Immunocompetent Hosts
| Autor: | David Stacy, Barbara H. Wade, Michael G. Rinaldi, George Cierny, Winkler Weinberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Microbiology (medical) Microbiology Necrosis Amphotericin B Spider Bites Humans Mucormycosis Medicine Pathogen Soil Microbiology Mycosis Cellulite business.industry Osteomyelitis Middle Aged medicine.disease Combined Modality Therapy Sting Infectious Diseases Debridement Cellulitis Immunology Zygomycosis business Immunocompetence medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Infectious Diseases. 17:881-884 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 1058-4838 |
| Popis: | A previously well 59-year-old man developed necrotizing, invasive cellulitis and subsequent osteomyelitis at what was judged to be the site of a bite or sting. The pathogen isolated was Apophysomyces elegans. Eventually, in addition to treatment with intravenous amphotericin B, en bloc resection was required for cure. Only six previous cases of A. elegans infection have been reported in the literature. The lack of underlying disease in six of the total of seven cases contrasts with the usual findings for other zygomycoses. This article describes all seven reported cases as well as the characteristics of this unique fungal pathogen. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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