Two rare cases of fungal bursitis due to Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa

Fungal infections due to Phialemoniopsis spp. are rarely reported in the medical literature. We report the first two cases of fungal bursitis of the knee by Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa, which has not been previously reported. Both patients were successfully treated with a six-month course of posac...

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Autores principales: Patolia, Harsh, Bansal, Ekta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8055602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33898253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01095
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description Fungal infections due to Phialemoniopsis spp. are rarely reported in the medical literature. We report the first two cases of fungal bursitis of the knee by Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa, which has not been previously reported. Both patients were successfully treated with a six-month course of posaconazole.
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spelling pubmed-80556022021-04-23 Two rare cases of fungal bursitis due to Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa Patolia, Harsh Bansal, Ekta IDCases Case Report Fungal infections due to Phialemoniopsis spp. are rarely reported in the medical literature. We report the first two cases of fungal bursitis of the knee by Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa, which has not been previously reported. Both patients were successfully treated with a six-month course of posaconazole. Elsevier 2021-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8055602/ /pubmed/33898253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01095 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://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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title Two rare cases of fungal bursitis due to Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa
title_full Two rare cases of fungal bursitis due to Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa
title_fullStr Two rare cases of fungal bursitis due to Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa
title_full_unstemmed Two rare cases of fungal bursitis due to Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa
title_short Two rare cases of fungal bursitis due to Phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa
title_sort two rare cases of fungal bursitis due to phialemoniopsis pluriloculosa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8055602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33898253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01095
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