Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of fungal rhinosinusitis

Fungal rhinosinusitis is not very uncommon in diabetic patients, but Scedosporium apiospermum as a cause of this infection is rare. We report a case of fungal rhinosinusitis by Scedosporium spp. in a diabetic male along with literature review. The patient is on voriconazole, with adequate therapeuti...

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Autores principales: Baidya, Ankita, Gupta, Nitin, Basu, Ayan, Kodan, Parul, Aggarwal, Karan, Singh, Chirom A., Singh, Gagandeep, Soneja, Manish, Xess, Immaculata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984713
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_434_18
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author Baidya, Ankita
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Basu, Ayan
Kodan, Parul
Aggarwal, Karan
Singh, Chirom A.
Singh, Gagandeep
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description Fungal rhinosinusitis is not very uncommon in diabetic patients, but Scedosporium apiospermum as a cause of this infection is rare. We report a case of fungal rhinosinusitis by Scedosporium spp. in a diabetic male along with literature review. The patient is on voriconazole, with adequate therapeutic response after 6 months of follow up.
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spelling pubmed-64362862019-04-12 Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of fungal rhinosinusitis Baidya, Ankita Gupta, Nitin Basu, Ayan Kodan, Parul Aggarwal, Karan Singh, Chirom A. Singh, Gagandeep Soneja, Manish Xess, Immaculata J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Fungal rhinosinusitis is not very uncommon in diabetic patients, but Scedosporium apiospermum as a cause of this infection is rare. We report a case of fungal rhinosinusitis by Scedosporium spp. in a diabetic male along with literature review. The patient is on voriconazole, with adequate therapeutic response after 6 months of follow up. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6436286/ /pubmed/30984713 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_434_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Gupta, Nitin
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Kodan, Parul
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Singh, Chirom A.
Singh, Gagandeep
Soneja, Manish
Xess, Immaculata
Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of fungal rhinosinusitis
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title_full Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of fungal rhinosinusitis
title_fullStr Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of fungal rhinosinusitis
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title_short Scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of fungal rhinosinusitis
title_sort scedosporium apiospermum as a rare cause of fungal rhinosinusitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984713
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_434_18
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