Wound infection caused by Lichtheimia ramosa due to a car accident

Evangelia Bibashi; G Sybren de Hoog; Theodoros E Pavlidis; Nikolaos Symeonidis; Athanasios Sakantamis; Grit Walther

doi:10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.12.001

Wound infection caused by Lichtheimia ramosa due to a car accident

Med Mycol Case Rep. 2012 Dec 8:2:7-10. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.12.001.

Authors

Evangelia Bibashi¹, G Sybren de Hoog², Theodoros E Pavlidis³, Nikolaos Symeonidis³, Athanasios Sakantamis³, Grit Walther²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Hippokration General Hospital, 49, Konstantinoupoleos Str., GR-546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.
² CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands.
³ 2 Propedeutical Surgical Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration General Hospital, 49, Konstantinoupoleos Str., GR-546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.

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.