Zygomycosis of the Scalp Caused by Rhizopus oryzae Presenting as Kerion in an Immunocompetent Child

Deep mycosis of the scalp caused by Rhizopus oryzae mimicking kerion is rare. Herein, we report a case of such infection in a 5-year-old immunocompetent boy who presented with multiple painful boggy swellings with discharging sinuses on the scalp of 4 months’ duration. Purulent discharge from the sw...

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Autores principales: Rao, Angoori Gnaneshwar, Reddy, Vangali Srikanth, Aparna, Karnam, Haqqani, Ruhi, Jagadevapuram, Kranthi, Gupta, Sneha, Fathima, Kousar, Tejal, M, Muppirala, Divyaparimala
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516143
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_551_18
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author Rao, Angoori Gnaneshwar
Reddy, Vangali Srikanth
Aparna, Karnam
Haqqani, Ruhi
Jagadevapuram, Kranthi
Gupta, Sneha
Fathima, Kousar
Tejal, M
Muppirala, Divyaparimala
author_facet Rao, Angoori Gnaneshwar
Reddy, Vangali Srikanth
Aparna, Karnam
Haqqani, Ruhi
Jagadevapuram, Kranthi
Gupta, Sneha
Fathima, Kousar
Tejal, M
Muppirala, Divyaparimala
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description Deep mycosis of the scalp caused by Rhizopus oryzae mimicking kerion is rare. Herein, we report a case of such infection in a 5-year-old immunocompetent boy who presented with multiple painful boggy swellings with discharging sinuses on the scalp of 4 months’ duration. Purulent discharge from the swelling cultured on Sabouraud's dextrose agar yielded R. oryzae species which was confirmed by molecular analysis by polymerase chain reaction. The child was managed with parenteral liposomal amphotericin-B which helped in clearance of infection.
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spelling pubmed-67141832019-09-12 Zygomycosis of the Scalp Caused by Rhizopus oryzae Presenting as Kerion in an Immunocompetent Child Rao, Angoori Gnaneshwar Reddy, Vangali Srikanth Aparna, Karnam Haqqani, Ruhi Jagadevapuram, Kranthi Gupta, Sneha Fathima, Kousar Tejal, M Muppirala, Divyaparimala Indian J Dermatol Case Report Deep mycosis of the scalp caused by Rhizopus oryzae mimicking kerion is rare. Herein, we report a case of such infection in a 5-year-old immunocompetent boy who presented with multiple painful boggy swellings with discharging sinuses on the scalp of 4 months’ duration. Purulent discharge from the swelling cultured on Sabouraud's dextrose agar yielded R. oryzae species which was confirmed by molecular analysis by polymerase chain reaction. The child was managed with parenteral liposomal amphotericin-B which helped in clearance of infection. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6714183/ /pubmed/31516143 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_551_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Dermatology 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Rao, Angoori Gnaneshwar
Reddy, Vangali Srikanth
Aparna, Karnam
Haqqani, Ruhi
Jagadevapuram, Kranthi
Gupta, Sneha
Fathima, Kousar
Tejal, M
Muppirala, Divyaparimala
Zygomycosis of the Scalp Caused by Rhizopus oryzae Presenting as Kerion in an Immunocompetent Child
title Zygomycosis of the Scalp Caused by Rhizopus oryzae Presenting as Kerion in an Immunocompetent Child
title_full Zygomycosis of the Scalp Caused by Rhizopus oryzae Presenting as Kerion in an Immunocompetent Child
title_fullStr Zygomycosis of the Scalp Caused by Rhizopus oryzae Presenting as Kerion in an Immunocompetent Child
title_full_unstemmed Zygomycosis of the Scalp Caused by Rhizopus oryzae Presenting as Kerion in an Immunocompetent Child
title_short Zygomycosis of the Scalp Caused by Rhizopus oryzae Presenting as Kerion in an Immunocompetent Child
title_sort zygomycosis of the scalp caused by rhizopus oryzae presenting as kerion in an immunocompetent child
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516143
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_551_18
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