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ArticleThe Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases

Cutaneous mucormycosis in advanced HIV disease.

José Moreira, Felipe Ridolfi, Rodrigo Almeida-Paes, Andrea Varon, Cristiane C Lamas

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Article in The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

José MoreiraInstituto Nacional de Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Maputo, Mozambique; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Laboratório de Pesquisa Clinica em DST e AIDS, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: jose.moreira@ini.fiocruz.br.
Felipe RidolfiFundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Rodrigo Almeida-PaesFundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Laboratório de Micologia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Andrea VaronFundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Cristiane C LamasFundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Universidade do Grande Rio (Unigranrio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz · BRInstituto Nacional de Saúde · MZ

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Angionvasive mucormycosis is an emerging fungal disease known to affect mainly diabetics or subjects with profound neutropenia. Infection usually occurs through the inhalation route, but cutaneous inoculation may occur after trauma or burns. However, mucormycosis remains unusual in HIV infection. We report a fatal case of cutaneous mucormycosis due to Rhizopus arrhizus involving the scalp following herpes zoster infection. The patient was a 42-year-old man with advanced AIDS failing on salvage antiretroviral therapy. The fungus was diagnosed on the basis of histopathology and culture. Our case emphasizes the need to consider mucormycosis in the differential diagnosis of necrotic cutaneous lesions in patients with late-stage HIV disease.

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AdultAIDS-Related Opportunistic InfectionsHumansMaleMucormycosisRhizopusAIDSHIVMucormycosisRhizopus

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PMID27473891
PMCPMC9427593
OpenAlexW2492098680

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