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Case Reports
. 2011 Oct;49(10):3710-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01209-11. Epub 2011 Aug 3.

Pythium aphanidermatum infection following combat trauma

Tatjana P Calvano  1 , Peter J Blatz, Todd J Vento, Brian L Wickes, Deanna A Sutton, Elizabeth H Thompson, Christopher E White, Evan M Renz, Duane R Hospenthal
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Case Reports

Pythium aphanidermatum infection following combat trauma

Tatjana P Calvano et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Oct.

Abstract

Pythium aphanidermatum is a fungus-like plant pathogen which has never been reported as a cause of human infection. We report a case of P. aphanidermatum invasive wound infection in a 21-year-old male injured during combat operations in Afghanistan.

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Fig. 1.
Histopathology from a section of the left sartorius muscle showing broad, sparsely septate hyphae (periodic acid Schiff stain; magnification, ×40).
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(A) Sterile hyphae of Pythium aphanidermatum grown on potato flake agar (lactophenol cotton blue mount); (B) oogonia, oospores, and antheridia (lactophenol cotton blue mount; magnification, ×20); (C) higher magnification of the oogonium (short thin arrow), the oospore (long thin arrow), and the antheridium (fat arrow) (lactophenol cotton blue mount); (D) toruloid sporangium. All were produced on CMACLA after 24 h of incubation at 25°C.
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