Clinical challenge: fatal mucormycotic osteomyelitis caused by Rhizopus microsporus despite aggressive multimodal treatment

BACKGROUND: Mucormycosis is an invasive mycotic disease caused by fungi in the zygomycetes class. Although ubiquitous in the environment, zygomycetes are rarely known to cause invasive disease in immunocompromised hosts with a high mortality even under aggressive antifungal and surgical therapy. Cli...

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Autores principales: Harrasser, Norbert, Banke, Ingo J, Hauschild, Matthias, Lenze, Ulrich, Prodinger, Peter M, Toepfer, Andreas, Peschel, Christian, von Eisenhart-Rothe, Rüdiger, Ringshausen, Ingo, Verbeek, Mareike
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4164739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25195155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-488

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4164739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25195155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-488

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