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. 2012 Dec 8:2:7-10.
doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.12.001.

Wound infection caused by Lichtheimia ramosa due to a car accident

Evangelia Bibashi  1 , G Sybren de Hoog  2 , Theodoros E Pavlidis  3 , Nikolaos Symeonidis  3 , Athanasios Sakantamis  3 , Grit Walther  2
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Wound infection caused by Lichtheimia ramosa due to a car accident

Evangelia Bibashi et al. Med Mycol Case Rep. .

Abstract

A 32-year-old immunocompetent man sustained severe traumas contaminated with organic material due to a car accident. An infection caused by Lichtheimia ramosa at the site of contamination was early diagnosed and cured by multiple surgical debridement and daily cleansing with antiseptic solution only.

Keywords: Lichtheimia; Mucorales; Mucormycosis; Trauma; Zygomycetes.

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CT scan demonstrating a subcutaneous cavity on the left lumbar region.
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Macro- and micromorphology of strain CBS 124197 of Lichtheimia ramosa: (a) colony surface after 3 days at 30 °C; (b) sporangiophores, one with intact sporangium and columella and one with columella after the rupture of the sporangium, stained with lactofuchsin, scale bar=100 μm; (c) branched sporangiophore bearing a young and a mature sporangium, scale bar 100 μm; (d) sporangiospores, scale bar=10 μm.
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