Invasive Sino-Orbital Aspergillosis and Tinea Corporis Co-Infection in a Returned Traveler from Flooded Sylhet, Bangladesh

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Oct 29;112(1):150-152. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.24-0139. Print 2025 Jan 8.

Abstract

We report a case of co-infection with Aspergillus fumigatus causing invasive sino-orbital aspergillosis and Trichophyton interdigitale tinea corporis in a returned traveler from flooded Sylhet region, Bangladesh. Anthropogenic climate change may lead to increased extreme weather-associated fungal infections. Travel to a flooded area should be considered a risk factor for fungal infection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antifungal Agents* / therapeutic use
  • Aspergillosis* / complications
  • Aspergillosis* / microbiology
  • Aspergillus fumigatus* / isolation & purification
  • Bangladesh
  • Coinfection* / microbiology
  • Floods
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Tinea* / microbiology
  • Travel*
  • Trichophyton / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents