Necrotizing fasciitis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis in an immunocompetent patient

Mucormycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis is rarely reported in humans. A case of A. variabilis infection in an immunocompetent men after friction burns in a car accident is described. The infection presented as a rapidly progressive necrotizing infection of the skin and soft tissue, which req...

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Autores principales: Rodríguez, José Y., Morales-López, Soraya E., Rodríguez, Gerson J., Álvarez-Moreno, Carlos A., Ocampo, Walter, Cepeda, Martha L., Mora-Valderrama, Miguel A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6105916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30148054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.12.002
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Sumario:Mucormycosis caused by Apophysomyces variabilis is rarely reported in humans. A case of A. variabilis infection in an immunocompetent men after friction burns in a car accident is described. The infection presented as a rapidly progressive necrotizing infection of the skin and soft tissue, which required extensive surgical debridement and total colonic defunctioning colostomy associated with prolonged antifungal therapy. A. variabilis infection should be considered as a differential diagnosis of rapidly progressive necrotizing skin and soft tissue infections in immunocompetent individuals.

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