Vaginal Mucormycosis: A Case Report

Although Zygomycetes cause life-threatening, opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts, the first case of vaginitis caused by Mucor species in a healthy woman is reported. Mucor vaginitis, which caused mild symptoms only, was refractory to conventional azole therapy and resistant to flucyt...

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Autor principal: Sobel, Jack D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2001
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1784639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11495552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1064744901000205
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description Although Zygomycetes cause life-threatening, opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts, the first case of vaginitis caused by Mucor species in a healthy woman is reported. Mucor vaginitis, which caused mild symptoms only, was refractory to conventional azole therapy and resistant to flucytosine. Cure was achieved with topical amphotericin B.
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spelling pubmed-17846392007-02-05 Vaginal Mucormycosis: A Case Report Sobel, Jack D. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol Research Article Although Zygomycetes cause life-threatening, opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts, the first case of vaginitis caused by Mucor species in a healthy woman is reported. Mucor vaginitis, which caused mild symptoms only, was refractory to conventional azole therapy and resistant to flucytosine. Cure was achieved with topical amphotericin B. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC1784639/ /pubmed/11495552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1064744901000205 Text en Copyright © 2001 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vaginal Mucormycosis: A Case Report
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title_full Vaginal Mucormycosis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Vaginal Mucormycosis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Vaginal Mucormycosis: A Case Report
title_short Vaginal Mucormycosis: A Case Report
title_sort vaginal mucormycosis: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1784639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11495552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1064744901000205
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