A case of disseminated coccidioidomycosis: autopsy report.
10.3346/jkms.1996.11.3.258
- Author:
Jun Hee WOO
1
;
Jae Sung LEE
;
Dong Wha LEE
;
So Young JIN
;
Dong Won KIM
;
Wee Gyo LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Seoul, Korea. Junheewoo@amc.ulsan.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Disseminated coccidiodomycosis
- MeSH:
Amphotericin B/therapeutic use;
Case Report;
Coccidioidomycosis/diagnosis/drug therapy/*pathology;
Female;
Human;
Middle Age
- From:Journal of Korean Medical Science
1996;11(3):258-264
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Disseminated coccidioidomycosis is a systemic fungal infection that is occurring more commonly and causes high mortality in patients with compromised host defense or debilitated. It is endemic in certain areas of North, Central, and South America. Increasingly, cases are being recognized outside the endemic area, due to travelers who have visited an endemic area. We experienced a case of disseminated coccidioidomycosis, as a reactivation of infection acquired earlier in a patient, who was a former resident of an endemic area.
