Alsaeed Mohammed, Mursi Mohamed, Bahloul Abdelkarim, Alrumeh Assem, Arab Nahlah, Alrasheed Mohannad
Medicine Department, Infectious Disease Division, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Alfaisal University College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
IDCases. 2023 Feb 13;31:e01709. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01709. eCollection 2023.
Basidiobolomycosis is an uncommon fungal infection caused by the environmental saprophyte . Basidiobolomycosis typically manifests as a subcutaneous infection, and rarely affects the gastrointestinal tract. It lacks a distinct clinical manifestation, and most initial cases are incorrectly identified. We report a 69-year-old male patient who presented to the emergency department with history of abdominal pain, fever, and weight loss for 1 year that turned to be gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis.
担子菌病是一种由环境腐生菌引起的罕见真菌感染。担子菌病通常表现为皮下感染,很少累及胃肠道。它缺乏明显的临床表现,大多数初发病例被误诊。我们报告一名69岁男性患者,因腹痛、发热和体重减轻1年就诊于急诊科,最终被诊断为胃肠道担子菌病。