Chlamydospores of Rhizopus microsporus var. rhizopodiformis in Tissue of Pulmonary Mucormycosis
| Autor: | Masatomo Kimura, Eisuke Enoki, Takaaki Chikugo, Osamu Maenishi, Kazuko Nishimura |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Lung Diseases Male Rhizopus microsporus Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Hypha Veterinary (miscellaneous) Fungus Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology Chlamydospore Young Adult Fatal Outcome medicine Humans Mucormycosis Pulmonary mucormycosis Aged Rhizopus microsporus var rhizopodiformis biology fungi Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Spore Female Autopsy Agronomy and Crop Science Rhizopus |
| Zdroj: | Mycopathologia. 174:441-450 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0832 0301-486X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11046-012-9560-9 |
| Popis: | Hyphae are usually the only fungal elements found in tissue of mucormycosis, and other fungal elements are quite rarely encountered. We found chlamydospores in bronchial lumina in autopsied tissue of pulmonary mucormycosis of a diabetic patient. Chlamydospores are thick-walled, asexually produced spores arising from the modification of a hyphal segment. This is the first histologic demonstration of chlamydospores in mucormycosis in which the causative fungus is culturally identified to species level. Rhizopus microsporus var. rhizopodiformis was isolated from the present autopsied pulmonary tissue. A literature review of human infection by this fungus found 27 cases with histopathologic evidence. |
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