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Case Reports
. 1990 Sep;28(9):2151-3.
doi: 10.1128/jcm.28.9.2151-2153.1990.

Burn wound zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces elegans

R D Cooter  1 , I S Lim, D H Ellis, I O Leitch
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Case Reports

Burn wound zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces elegans

R D Cooter et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1990 Sep.

Abstract

A case of zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces elegans in a patient having 25% full-thickness burns is described. Amputation of the leg was necessary to control rapid tissue invasion. The fungus was isolated from soil in the burn environment.

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