Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis: an emerging fungal infection causing bowel perforation in a child
Mortada H. F. El-Shabrawi1,
Naglaa Mohamed Kamal1,2,
Riyadh Jouini3,
Abdullah Al-Harbi2,
Kerstin Voigt4,5 and
Talal Al-Malki3,6
- Author Affiliations
1Paediatric Hepatology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
2Paediatric Department, Al Hada Armed Forces Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia
3Paediatric Surgery, Al Hada Armed Forces Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia
4Jena Microbial Resource Collection, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany
5University of Jena, School of Biology and Pharmacy, Institute of Microbiology, Jena, Germany
6Quality and Development, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
Received 10 December 2010.
Accepted 5 May 2011.
Abstract
Basidiobolomycosis is an unusual fungal skin infection that rarely involves the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. We report a 10-year-old boy diagnosed as suffering GI basidiobolomycosis after being misdiagnosed first as suffering intestinal malignancy then schistosomiasis...
