First description of a local Coprinopsis cinerea skin and soft tissue infection

C Correa-Martinez; A Brentrup; K Hess; K Becker; A H Groll; F Schaumburg

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2017.11.008

First description of a local Coprinopsis cinerea skin and soft tissue infection

New Microbes New Infect. 2017 Dec 5:21:102-104. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2017.11.008. eCollection 2018 Jan.

Authors

C Correa-Martinez¹, A Brentrup², K Hess³, K Becker¹, A H Groll⁴, F Schaumburg¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Germany.
² Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Germany.
³ Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Muenster, Münster, Germany.
⁴ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Children's Hospital Muenster, Münster, Germany.

Abstract

Coprinopsis cinerea is an environmental fungus which can cause disseminated infections in immunocompromised patients, often leading to death. Here we report the case of a paediatric patient with an invasive wound infection due to C. cinerea, which was successfully treated with surgical debridement and oral posaconazole.

Keywords: Coprinopsis; hormographiella; immunosuppression; posaconazole; skin; wound infection.

Publication types

Case Reports