Aggressive cutaneous zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent child

A zygomycetous fungus was observed in a biopsy of a 9-year-old male. The patient was presented with severe cutaneous lesions subsequent to a traumatic car accident. Following fungal detection, antifungal treatment was prescribed but condition deteriorated rapidly and above knee amputation was done a...

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Autores principales: Al-Zaydani, Ibrahim A., Al-Hakami, Ahmed M., Joseph, Martin R.P., Kassem, Walid M., Almaghrabi, Mohamed K., Nageeb, Abdalla, Hamid, Mohamed E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26858932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.12.003
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author Al-Zaydani, Ibrahim A.
Al-Hakami, Ahmed M.
Joseph, Martin R.P.
Kassem, Walid M.
Almaghrabi, Mohamed K.
Nageeb, Abdalla
Hamid, Mohamed E.
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Al-Hakami, Ahmed M.
Joseph, Martin R.P.
Kassem, Walid M.
Almaghrabi, Mohamed K.
Nageeb, Abdalla
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description A zygomycetous fungus was observed in a biopsy of a 9-year-old male. The patient was presented with severe cutaneous lesions subsequent to a traumatic car accident. Following fungal detection, antifungal treatment was prescribed but condition deteriorated rapidly and above knee amputation was done as lifesaving and to control fungal infection. Analysis of the 28 S rRNA gene (accession KT149770) aligned the isolate with members of the genus Apophysomyces and the pathogen was identified as Apophysomces variabilis.
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spelling pubmed-47065662016-02-08 Aggressive cutaneous zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent child Al-Zaydani, Ibrahim A. Al-Hakami, Ahmed M. Joseph, Martin R.P. Kassem, Walid M. Almaghrabi, Mohamed K. Nageeb, Abdalla Hamid, Mohamed E. Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report A zygomycetous fungus was observed in a biopsy of a 9-year-old male. The patient was presented with severe cutaneous lesions subsequent to a traumatic car accident. Following fungal detection, antifungal treatment was prescribed but condition deteriorated rapidly and above knee amputation was done as lifesaving and to control fungal infection. Analysis of the 28 S rRNA gene (accession KT149770) aligned the isolate with members of the genus Apophysomyces and the pathogen was identified as Apophysomces variabilis. Elsevier 2015-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4706566/ /pubmed/26858932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.12.003 Text en © 2015 International Society for Human and Animal Mycology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Al-Zaydani, Ibrahim A.
Al-Hakami, Ahmed M.
Joseph, Martin R.P.
Kassem, Walid M.
Almaghrabi, Mohamed K.
Nageeb, Abdalla
Hamid, Mohamed E.
Aggressive cutaneous zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent child
title Aggressive cutaneous zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent child
title_full Aggressive cutaneous zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent child
title_fullStr Aggressive cutaneous zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent child
title_full_unstemmed Aggressive cutaneous zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent child
title_short Aggressive cutaneous zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent child
title_sort aggressive cutaneous zygomycosis caused by apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent child
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26858932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.12.003
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