Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis following a Streptococcus pyogenes Toxic Shock Syndrome in a Previously Healthy Patient: A Case Report.

Case Rep Infect Dis

Département de Microbiologie et de Maladies Infectieuses, Université de Sherbrooke, CHUS 3001, 12ème Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1H 5N4.

Published: August 2012

Mucormycosis is an uncommon opportunistic infection and the gastrointestinal form is the rarest. Rhizopus sp. is the most frequent pathogen and infection occurs almost exclusively in immunocompromised patients. We describe the first case of intestinal mucormycosis occurring after a Streptococcus pyogenes toxic shock syndrome in a previously healthy patient caused by Rhizopus microsporus var. azygosporus.

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