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 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.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Medical Mycology Case Reports

• Publication date

  2018-09-06

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.08.002PMID 30225186PMCID 6138945
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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