Outcome of mucormycosis after treatment: report of five cases
Mucormycoses are serious infections caused by filamentous fungi of the order Mucorales. They occur most often in immunocompromised patients. We report five cases of mucormycosis in patients hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases Department in Sousse – Tunisia between 2000 and 2013. They were 4 male...
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| author | F. Bellazreg Z. Hattab S. Meksi S. Mansouri W. Hachfi N. Kaabia M. Ben Said A. Letaief |
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| description | Mucormycoses are serious infections caused by filamentous fungi of the order Mucorales. They occur most often in immunocompromised patients. We report five cases of mucormycosis in patients hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases Department in Sousse – Tunisia between 2000 and 2013. They were 4 males and one female, mean age 60 years. Three patients were diabetic and one patient had acute leukemia. The locations of mucormycosis were rhinocerebral, rhino-orbital, auricular, pulmonary and cutaneous. The Mucorales isolated were Rhizopus arrhizus in 3 cases and Lichteimia in 2 cases. All patients were treated with amphotericin B and 2 patients had, in addition, surgical debridement. Two patients died and 2 kept peripheral facial paralysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c7da948d66884541b7d9f4f8cd22bbc62022-12-22T02:02:16ZengElsevierNew Microbes and New Infections2052-29752015-07-016C495210.1016/j.nmni.2014.12.002Outcome of mucormycosis after treatment: report of five casesF. Bellazreg0Z. Hattab1S. Meksi2S. Mansouri3W. Hachfi4N. Kaabia5M. Ben Said6A. Letaief7Service de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, TunisieService de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, TunisieLaboratoire de Parasitologie – Mycologie, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, TunisieService de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, TunisieService de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, TunisieService de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, TunisieLaboratoire de Parasitologie – Mycologie, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, TunisieService de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, TunisieMucormycoses are serious infections caused by filamentous fungi of the order Mucorales. They occur most often in immunocompromised patients. We report five cases of mucormycosis in patients hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases Department in Sousse – Tunisia between 2000 and 2013. They were 4 males and one female, mean age 60 years. Three patients were diabetic and one patient had acute leukemia. The locations of mucormycosis were rhinocerebral, rhino-orbital, auricular, pulmonary and cutaneous. The Mucorales isolated were Rhizopus arrhizus in 3 cases and Lichteimia in 2 cases. All patients were treated with amphotericin B and 2 patients had, in addition, surgical debridement. Two patients died and 2 kept peripheral facial paralysis.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297514000158Amphotericin BdiabetesLichteimia corymbiferaMucormycosisRhizopus arrhizus |
| spellingShingle | F. Bellazreg Z. Hattab S. Meksi S. Mansouri W. Hachfi N. Kaabia M. Ben Said A. Letaief Outcome of mucormycosis after treatment: report of five cases New Microbes and New Infections Amphotericin B diabetes Lichteimia corymbifera Mucormycosis Rhizopus arrhizus |
| title | Outcome of mucormycosis after treatment: report of five cases |
| title_full | Outcome of mucormycosis after treatment: report of five cases |
| title_fullStr | Outcome of mucormycosis after treatment: report of five cases |
| title_full_unstemmed | Outcome of mucormycosis after treatment: report of five cases |
| title_short | Outcome of mucormycosis after treatment: report of five cases |
| title_sort | outcome of mucormycosis after treatment report of five cases |
| topic | Amphotericin B diabetes Lichteimia corymbifera Mucormycosis Rhizopus arrhizus |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297514000158 |
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