Re: Brain abscess due to Scedosporium apiospermum in a non immunocompromised child

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-this is just sad. and so wrong that a childs life would be lost

because of misdiagnoses.it makes me so angry.-- In

, " tigerpaw2c " <tigerpaw2c@...> wrote:

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> Brain abscess due to Scedosporium apiospermum in a non

> immunocompromised child.

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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

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> Acharya A, Ghimire A, Khanal B, Bhattacharya S, Kumari N, Kanungo

R.

> Department of Clinical Microbiology, Pondicherry Institute of

> Medical Sciences, Pondicherry - 605 006, India.

> rebakanungo2001@...

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> Scedosporium apiospermum is a filamentous fungi that commonly

causes

> cutaneous infection. In certain circumstances, S. apiospermum can

> also cause invasive disease, which can involve the central nervous

> system (CNS). When the CNS becomes involved, treatment is

difficult,

> therapeutic options are limited and the prognosis is poor. Early

> identification and treatment can decrease the mortality rate. Here

> we present a case of brain abscess with chronic suppurative otitis

> media, caused by S. apiospermum. This is the first such case report

> from Nepal. We could identify the organism only post mortem. We

> could not save the patient, probably due to delay in diagnosis.

>

> PMID: 16912449 [PubMed - in process]

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