Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-27-2018

Publication Title

IDCases

Volume

14

First page number:

1

Last page number:

3

Abstract

Mucormycosis is a relatively rare, life-threatening and opportunistic infection that affects immunocompromised patients. We present the unusual case of pulmonary mucormycosis in a 13-year-old Caucasian female that had recently been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Our case serves as an example to healthcare providers treating immunosuppressed patients with pneumonia to have a high clinical suspicion for fungal infections, as delay in diagnosis and treatment can result in disseminated disease and higher patient mortality risk.

Keywords

Mucormycosis; Diabetes mellitus; Invasive fungal infections; Complications of diabetes mellitus

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

File Format

PDF

File Size

696 Kb

Language

English

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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