Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Buruli ulcer – Sao Tome and Principe (03): A. fumigatus, PCR, bone biopsy, RFI
PRO/EDR> Buruli ulcer – Sao Tome and Principe (03): A. fumigatus, PCR, bone biopsy, RFI
Aspergillosis -- Sao Tome & PrincipeIn March 2016 we started following a patient from Sao Tome with severe leg ulcer, complicated with bacterial infection and extension to bone. In December 2016, an _Aspergillus fumigatus_ DNA was found in a bone biopsy.The patient has improved since, with anti-fungal therapy (first with itraconazole and in the last 2 months changed to voriconazole). I think this is a possible etiology.It was a very difficult diagnosis, because normal fungal cultures were negative. Read more [...]
