The Sinus That Breeds Fungus: Subcutaneous Zygomycosis Caused by Basidiobolus ranarum at the Injection Site

Subcutaneous zygomycosis is caused by Basidiobolus ranarum which is endemic in India. We report a case of a housewife who presented with a persistent discharging sinus from the right gluteal region subsequent to an intramuscular injection which was refractory to empirical antituberculous therapy. Sh...

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Autores principales: Jayanth, S. T., Gaikwad, P., Promila, M., Muthusami, J. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24349806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/534192
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author Jayanth, S. T.
Gaikwad, P.
Promila, M.
Muthusami, J. C.
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description Subcutaneous zygomycosis is caused by Basidiobolus ranarum which is endemic in India. We report a case of a housewife who presented with a persistent discharging sinus from the right gluteal region subsequent to an intramuscular injection which was refractory to empirical antituberculous therapy. She underwent an excision of the sinus tract, the culture of which yielded B. ranarum. The wound improved with oral potassium iodide.
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spelling pubmed-38522752013-12-12 The Sinus That Breeds Fungus: Subcutaneous Zygomycosis Caused by Basidiobolus ranarum at the Injection Site Jayanth, S. T. Gaikwad, P. Promila, M. Muthusami, J. C. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Subcutaneous zygomycosis is caused by Basidiobolus ranarum which is endemic in India. We report a case of a housewife who presented with a persistent discharging sinus from the right gluteal region subsequent to an intramuscular injection which was refractory to empirical antituberculous therapy. She underwent an excision of the sinus tract, the culture of which yielded B. ranarum. The wound improved with oral potassium iodide. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3852275/ /pubmed/24349806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/534192 Text en Copyright © 2013 S. T. Jayanth et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Jayanth, S. T.
Gaikwad, P.
Promila, M.
Muthusami, J. C.
The Sinus That Breeds Fungus: Subcutaneous Zygomycosis Caused by Basidiobolus ranarum at the Injection Site
title The Sinus That Breeds Fungus: Subcutaneous Zygomycosis Caused by Basidiobolus ranarum at the Injection Site
title_full The Sinus That Breeds Fungus: Subcutaneous Zygomycosis Caused by Basidiobolus ranarum at the Injection Site
title_fullStr The Sinus That Breeds Fungus: Subcutaneous Zygomycosis Caused by Basidiobolus ranarum at the Injection Site
title_full_unstemmed The Sinus That Breeds Fungus: Subcutaneous Zygomycosis Caused by Basidiobolus ranarum at the Injection Site
title_short The Sinus That Breeds Fungus: Subcutaneous Zygomycosis Caused by Basidiobolus ranarum at the Injection Site
title_sort sinus that breeds fungus: subcutaneous zygomycosis caused by basidiobolus ranarum at the injection site
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24349806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/534192
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