Wound infection caused by Lichtheimia ramosa due to a car accident

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Authors
  • A. Sakantamis
  • G. Walther
Publication date 2013
Journal Medical Mycology Case Reports
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 7-10
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
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.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.12.001
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