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- Mariusz Stasiak, Alfred Samet, Jerzy Lasek, Maria Wujtewicz, Zbigniew Witkowski, Jolanta Komarnicka, Katarzyna Golabek-Dropiewska, Bartosz Rybak, Marta Gross, and Wojciech Marks.
- Medical University of Gdańsk, Department of Trauma Surgery, Dêbinki Street 7, Gdañsk, 80-211, Poland.
- BMJ Case Rep. 2009 Jan 1; 2009.
AbstractNecrotising skin and soft tissues infections are most commonly bacterial in origin. However, saprophytic fungi of the class Zygomycetes, family Mucoraceae, can cause highly aggressive infections (mucormycoses) mainly in immunocompromised patients. Severe trauma is one of the major risk factors for mucormycosis. Fungal traumatic wound infection is an unusual complication associated with crash limb injury. This report describes a case of serious necrotising soft tissue infection caused by Mucor sp following primary fungal environmental wound contamination in a multiply injured patient. Despite undelayed diagnosis and proper treatment (surgical debridement and limb amputation, amphotericin B therapy) the patient presented a fatal outcome.
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