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The Rise of an Oppurtunistic Infection called “Invasive Zygomycosis”
Invasive zygomycosis is a devastating fungal infection seen mostly in immune-compromised patients. We present a case of a 48-year old diabetic man, with aplastic anemia, who developed severe pulmonary mucormycosis that led to his rapid demise despite early diagnosis and treatment with liposomal amph...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840956/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300403 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.56256 |
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author | Waness, Abdelkarim Dawsari, Ghuzayel Al Jahdali, Hamdan Al |
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description | Invasive zygomycosis is a devastating fungal infection seen mostly in immune-compromised patients. We present a case of a 48-year old diabetic man, with aplastic anemia, who developed severe pulmonary mucormycosis that led to his rapid demise despite early diagnosis and treatment with liposomal amphotericin B. We also conducted an extensive review of the pathogenesis of invasive zygomycosis, its history, predisposing factors, clinical aspects, diagnostic modalities, treatment options, morbidity and mortality. |
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spelling | pubmed-28409562010-03-18 The Rise of an Oppurtunistic Infection called “Invasive Zygomycosis” Waness, Abdelkarim Dawsari, Ghuzayel Al Jahdali, Hamdan Al J Glob Infect Dis Practitioner Section Invasive zygomycosis is a devastating fungal infection seen mostly in immune-compromised patients. We present a case of a 48-year old diabetic man, with aplastic anemia, who developed severe pulmonary mucormycosis that led to his rapid demise despite early diagnosis and treatment with liposomal amphotericin B. We also conducted an extensive review of the pathogenesis of invasive zygomycosis, its history, predisposing factors, clinical aspects, diagnostic modalities, treatment options, morbidity and mortality. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2840956/ /pubmed/20300403 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.56256 Text en © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Practitioner Section Waness, Abdelkarim Dawsari, Ghuzayel Al Jahdali, Hamdan Al The Rise of an Oppurtunistic Infection called “Invasive Zygomycosis” |
title | The Rise of an Oppurtunistic Infection called “Invasive Zygomycosis” |
title_full | The Rise of an Oppurtunistic Infection called “Invasive Zygomycosis” |
title_fullStr | The Rise of an Oppurtunistic Infection called “Invasive Zygomycosis” |
title_full_unstemmed | The Rise of an Oppurtunistic Infection called “Invasive Zygomycosis” |
title_short | The Rise of an Oppurtunistic Infection called “Invasive Zygomycosis” |
title_sort | rise of an oppurtunistic infection called “invasive zygomycosis” |
topic | Practitioner Section |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840956/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300403 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.56256 |
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