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1. Combat-Related Pythium aphanidermatum Invasive Wound Infection: Case Report and Discussion of Utility of Molecular Diagnostics

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Carmita Sanders, Nathan P. Wiederhold, Anuradha Ganesan, Ian R Driscoll, Elizabeth A Rini, Brent Enniss, Todd J. Vento, James Feig, Deanna A. Sutton, Clinton K. Murray, Katrin Mende, Aaron R. Farmer, and Brian L. Wickes

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Adult, Male, Microbiology (medical), Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Lichtheimia corymbifera, Pythium, Case Reports, Bombs, Microbiology, Young Adult, Pythiosis, Fatal Outcome, Blast Injuries, medicine, Humans, Pythium aphanidermatum, biology, food and beverages, Saksenaea vasiformis, biology.organism_classification, Molecular diagnostics, medicine.disease, Military Personnel, Molecular Diagnostic Techniques, Wound Infection, Coinfection, Total body surface area
Abstract

We describe a 22-year-old soldier with 19% total body surface area burns, polytrauma, and sequence- and culture-confirmed Pythium aphanidermatum wound infection. Antemortem histopathology suggested disseminated Pythium infection, including brain involvement; however, postmortem PCR revealed Cunninghamella elegans , Lichtheimia corymbifera , and Saksenaea vasiformis coinfection. The utility of molecular diagnostics in invasive fungal infections is discussed.

Published
2015
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2. Pythium aphanidermatum Infection following Combat Trauma

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

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Male, Microbiology (medical), Fatal outcome, Molecular Sequence Data, Pythium, Mycology, Case Reports, Biology, DNA, Ribosomal, Microbiology, Young Adult, Pythiosis, Fatal Outcome, Humans, Pythium aphanidermatum, DNA, Fungal, Pathogen, Microscopy, Histocytochemistry, fungi, Afghanistan, Fungal genetics, food and beverages, Sequence Analysis, DNA, biology.organism_classification, Wound infection, Wound Infection, Wounds and Injuries, Fungus Diseases
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.

Published
2011
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