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Case report: Infrapatellar bursitis caused by Prototheca wickerhamii
Dorien Van den Bossche1, Roel de Haan2, Jutte Van der Werff Ten Bosch3
1Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
Medical Mycology Case Reports
|December 28, 2013
Abstract:
A 54-year-old immunocompetent man presented with an infrapatellar bursitis caused by Prototheca wickerhamii. Because of clinical and microbiological relapse two weeks after bursectomy, six weekly injections of 5 mg of conventional amphotericin B were chosen for intrabursal treatment. Four months after completion of the treatment, the patient remains cured.