Fusarium verticillioides abscess of the nasal septum in an immunosuppressed child: case report and identification of the morphologically atypical fungal strain.

ABSTRACT: Morphologically atypical Fusarium verticillioides causing a nasal abscess in a severely immunosuppressed child was successfully treated with repeated surgical intervention and liposomal amphotericin B, despite amphotericin B resistance in vitro. Definitive identification was achieved by sequencing the translation elongation factor alpha gene after ribosomal sequencing proved inadequate.

SUBMITTER: Dornbusch HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1081332 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature