CEREBRAL PSEUDALLESCHERIA MYCOSIS AFTER NEAR-DROWNING

Authors
RUCHEL R WILICHOWSKI E
Citation
R. Ruchel et E. Wilichowski, CEREBRAL PSEUDALLESCHERIA MYCOSIS AFTER NEAR-DROWNING, Mycoses, 38(11-12), 1995, pp. 473-475
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases",Mycology
Journal title
Mycoses → ACNP
ISSN journal
09337407
Volume
38
Issue
11-12
Year of publication
1995
Pages
473 - 475
Database
ISI
SICI code
0933-7407(1995)38:11-12<473:CPMAN>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Scedosporium apiospermum, an anamorph of Pseudallescheria boydii, is a hyalohyphomycete which can be mistaken, histologically, for Aspergill us. S. apiospermum is clinically distinguished by resistance to most a ntifungals and its ability to cause invasive mycoses in immunocompeten t patients. Here we present a typical case of lethal cerebral Pseudall escheria mycosis in a child after near-drowning.