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
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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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Tadepalli, Karuna
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Kumar Gupta, Pradeep
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description 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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spelling pubmed-53891012017-04-17 Melanized fungus as an Epidural abscess: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge shrivastava, Adesh Tadepalli, Karuna Goel, Garima Gupta, Kajal Kumar Gupta, Pradeep Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report 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. Elsevier 2017-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5389101/ /pubmed/28417063 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.04.001 Text en © 2017 The Authors 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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Melanized fungus as an Epidural abscess: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
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title_full Melanized fungus as an Epidural abscess: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
title_fullStr Melanized fungus as an Epidural abscess: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
title_full_unstemmed Melanized fungus as an Epidural abscess: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
title_short Melanized fungus as an Epidural abscess: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
title_sort melanized fungus as an epidural abscess: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
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url 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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