Coccidioidomycosis in India: report of a second imported case
| Autor: | D. Elizabeth, D. W. Warnock, Arvind A. Padhye, D. Arjundas, S Verghese, P. Padmaja, K. C. Krishnakumar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Isolation (health care) Coccidioides immitis Colony Count Microbial India Disease Diagnosis Differential Fatal Outcome Biopsy medicine Humans Left gluteal region Sinus (anatomy) Mycosis Travel Coccidioidomycosis Suppuration biology medicine.diagnostic_test Coccidioides business.industry Arizona General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Dermatology Biological safety Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Immunology Buttocks Lymph Nodes business |
| Zdroj: | Medical mycology. 40(3) |
| ISSN: | 1369-3786 |
| Popis: | We describe a fatal case of imported coccidioidomycosis in India in a 22-year-old male who worked in Tucson, Arizona, approximately four years prior to his illness. The diagnosis was based on the presence of characteristic spherules with endospores in biopsy tissue of lymph nodes, bone and pus from a chronic discharging sinus in the left gluteal region and isolation of Coccidioides immitis in culture. C. immitis is one of the most infectious and virulent fungal pathogens and poses a serious occupational hazard for laboratory personnel, especially in areas where the disease is not endemic. To reduce the role of laboratory-acquired infection, all procedures that involve manipulation of cultures of C. immitis should, whenever possible, be conducted in a biological safety cabinet. |
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