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  • Title: Zygomycosis (absidiomycosis) in an AIDS patient. Absidiomycosis in AIDS.
    Author: Smith AG, Bustamante CI, Gilmor GD.
    Journal: Mycopathologia; 1989 Jan; 105(1):7-10. PubMed ID: 2739694.
    Abstract:
    Absidia corymbifera is rarely cited as a cause of zygomycosis in the human host. Presented here is a case of absidiomycosis in a 29 year old construction worker hospitalized with a 6 year of intravenous drug abuse, serological evidence for HIV infection, and the symptomatology of AIDS. A CT scan and gallium uptake imaging identified a nonfunctioning right kidney. Following a biopsy and a nephrectomy, histopathology revealed hyphal components consistent with zygomycosis. Culture of the biopsy and surgical specimens yielded A. corymbifera. Clinically the patient responded well to amphotericin B therapy.
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