Post-traumatic fatal disseminated Apophysomyces elegans infection

Mucorales infections typically occur in immunocompromised hosts. We describe a case of disseminated post-traumatic Apophysomyces elegans in an immunocompetent patient status-post soil inoculation. Fungi introduced at a deep arm laceration leads to neurovascular invasion and dissemination prior to am...

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Autores principales: Egge, Stephanie, Wei, Eric, Clements, Erin, Chandranesan, Andrew Stevenson Joel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6138945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30225186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.08.002
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Clements, Erin
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description Mucorales infections typically occur in immunocompromised hosts. We describe a case of disseminated post-traumatic Apophysomyces elegans in an immunocompetent patient status-post soil inoculation. Fungi introduced at a deep arm laceration leads to neurovascular invasion and dissemination prior to amputation and systemic treatment. We specify strict post-traumatic wound surveillance protocol and roles of novel tissue tests to improve time to diagnosis and prognosis of frequently fatal post-traumatic Mucorales infections.
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spelling pubmed-61389452018-09-17 Post-traumatic fatal disseminated Apophysomyces elegans infection Egge, Stephanie Wei, Eric Clements, Erin Chandranesan, Andrew Stevenson Joel Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Mucorales infections typically occur in immunocompromised hosts. We describe a case of disseminated post-traumatic Apophysomyces elegans in an immunocompetent patient status-post soil inoculation. Fungi introduced at a deep arm laceration leads to neurovascular invasion and dissemination prior to amputation and systemic treatment. We specify strict post-traumatic wound surveillance protocol and roles of novel tissue tests to improve time to diagnosis and prognosis of frequently fatal post-traumatic Mucorales infections. Elsevier 2018-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6138945/ /pubmed/30225186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.08.002 Text en © 2018 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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Post-traumatic fatal disseminated Apophysomyces elegans infection
title Post-traumatic fatal disseminated Apophysomyces elegans infection
title_full Post-traumatic fatal disseminated Apophysomyces elegans infection
title_fullStr Post-traumatic fatal disseminated Apophysomyces elegans infection
title_full_unstemmed Post-traumatic fatal disseminated Apophysomyces elegans infection
title_short Post-traumatic fatal disseminated Apophysomyces elegans infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6138945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30225186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.08.002
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