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Case Reports
. 2010 Jul;15(3):98-100.
doi: 10.4103/0971-9261.71753.

Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review

Yogesh Kumar Sarin  1
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Case Reports

Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review

Yogesh Kumar Sarin. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg. 2010 Jul.

Abstract

Mucormycosis is a fungal disease that may rarely invade the gastrointestinal tract of newborn, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. Clinically, it may be indistinguishable from the neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and the diagnosis is usually made on autopsy or histopathology of excised surgical specimen. We report a neonatal survivor of the illness.

Keywords: Amphotericin B; mucormycosis; necrotizing enterocolitis; neonate; rhizopus.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Presence of characteristic aseptate wide hyphae of Mucor within the intestinal segment. (H and E, ×400)
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