Open AccessPulmonary scedosporiosis–A rare entity
Author(s) -
Sushant Meshram,
Gyanshankar Mishra
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of tropical disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.208
H-Index - 33
ISSN - 2222-1808
DOI - 10.1016/s2222-1808(11)60076-5
Subject(s) - medicine , chest pain , pulmonary infection , dermatology , intensive care medicine
Pulmonary scedosporiosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection of the lungs in humans and\udmostly it occurs in previously diseased lungs or in immunocompromised patients. We report\udhere a case of 30-year-old female who presented with complaints of cough with expectoration,\udbreathlessness, chest pain and fever since one year ago and was subsequently diagnosed to\udbe suffering from pulmonary scedosporiosis whose causative organism was Allescheria boydii.\udThe patient responded to medical line of management. This is the first case of pulmonary\udscedosporiosis being reported in an immunocompetent host in association with a long term history\udof occupational exposure to cow dung