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Published on: March 29, 2012
Disseminated Fusarium oxysporum neurospinal infection
Pe Sreedharan Namboothiri1, Sreehari Narayanan Nair1, Krishnan Vijayan2
1Department of Orthopedics, Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Ltd., Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Abstract:
We report a case of disseminated meningospondylodiscitis in an elderly diabetic patient caused by Fusarium oxysporum. As the clinical presentation was nonspecific, the diagnosis of the condition could only be arrived at after laboratory and imaging studies. The diagnosis of the condition requires a high index of suspicion. Patient underwent thorough surgical debridement along with a short course of variconazole and remained asymptomatic after 36 months of diagnosis. Fusarium is a large genus of filamentous fungi widely distributed in soil and in association with plants. It is known to cause local infections (nail, cornea) in healthy humans and disseminated infection only in the immunocompromised.
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