Coccidioides immitis soft tissue infection mimicking pseudofolliculitis barbae

Endemic fungal infections can present atypically and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any soft tissue infection not responding appropriately to antibiotic therapy. Diagnosis can be confirmed with a biopsy. Most fungal soft tissue infections require extended duration of treatment...

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Autores principales: Gerstein, Wendy, Ilieva, Valeria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29636956
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1421
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spelling pubmed-58892192018-04-10 Coccidioides immitis soft tissue infection mimicking pseudofolliculitis barbae Gerstein, Wendy Ilieva, Valeria Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Endemic fungal infections can present atypically and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any soft tissue infection not responding appropriately to antibiotic therapy. Diagnosis can be confirmed with a biopsy. Most fungal soft tissue infections require extended duration of treatment. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5889219/ /pubmed/29636956 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1421 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Coccidioides immitis soft tissue infection mimicking pseudofolliculitis barbae
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29636956
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