An Unusual Case of Actinomucor elegans: A Challenging Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND Actinomucor elegans is an unusual cause of mucormycosis and can be difficult to identify by conventional methods. Mucormycosis has a very high mortality rate, especially among immunocompromised individuals. Due to the morbid and progressive nature of opportunistic fungal infections, early diagnosis is paramount for effective disease management. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI) and Sanger sequencing are useful methods for rapid diagnosis of unusual fungal pathogens. CASE REPORT We report a fatal case of mucormycosis caused by A. elegans in an immunocompromised man. The pathogen was isolated from a large nasal septal black eschar that developed rapidly during tooth extraction in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome and diabete

SUBMITTER: Kubica PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7252847 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature