Melanized fungus as an Epidural abscess: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge

Curvularia a dematiaceous fungus is ubiquitously found in soil around the world. We report an epidural abscess due to Curvularia lunata in a 48 years male farmer who underwent decompressive laminectomy as primary modality of treatment followed by isolation, identification and confirmation of the iso...

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Autores principales: shrivastava, Adesh, Tadepalli, Karuna, Goel, Garima, Gupta, Kajal, Kumar Gupta, Pradeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5389101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28417063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.04.001
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Sumario:Curvularia a dematiaceous fungus is ubiquitously found in soil around the world. We report an epidural abscess due to Curvularia lunata in a 48 years male farmer who underwent decompressive laminectomy as primary modality of treatment followed by isolation, identification and confirmation of the isolate from tissue by ITS sequencing. Antifungal therapy with voriconazole and amphotericin B for 3 and 2 weeks respectively improved patient's condition and is presently on regular follow up with no sequelae since last 7 months.

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