Rhino-orbitocerebral zygomycosis caused by Conidiobolus incongruus in an immunocompromised patient in Germany

J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Nov;48(11):4322-5. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01188-10. Epub 2010 Sep 22.

Abstract

Mucorales (subphylum Mucoromycotina) are well-known agents of invasive mucormycosis, whereas Entomophthorales (subphylum Entomophthoromycotina) are rarely encountered in human diseases in temperate zones. Here we report a fatal case of invasive rhino-orbitocerebral entomophthoramycosis caused by Conidiobolus incongruus in a 78-year-old woman with myelodysplastic syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Conidiobolus / isolation & purification*
  • DNA, Fungal / chemistry
  • DNA, Fungal / genetics
  • DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry
  • DNA, Ribosomal / genetics
  • Encephalitis / complications*
  • Encephalitis / microbiology
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Genes, rRNA
  • Germany
  • Head / diagnostic imaging
  • Histocytochemistry
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host*
  • Microscopy
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes / complications*
  • Orbital Cellulitis / complications*
  • Orbital Cellulitis / microbiology
  • RNA, Fungal / genetics
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 18S / genetics
  • Rhinitis / complications*
  • Rhinitis / microbiology
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Zygomycosis / diagnosis*
  • Zygomycosis / pathology

Substances

  • DNA, Fungal
  • DNA, Ribosomal
  • RNA, Fungal
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 18S

Associated data

  • GENBANK/HQ200416