Green herring syndrome: bacterial infection in patients with mucormycosis cavitary lung disease

Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Driele PeixotoFrancisco M Marty

Abstract

Mucormycosis is a life-threatening fungal disease in patients with hematological malignancies. The diagnosis of pulmonary mucormycosis is particularly challenging. We describe 3 mucormycosis cases with an uncommon presentation in patients whose cavitary lung disease was attributed to well documented bacterial infection, although evolution and reassessment established mucormycosis as the underlying disease.

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Feb 22, 2016·Infectious Disease Clinics of North America·Dimitrios Farmakiotis, Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis
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BETA
bronchoalveolar lavage
biopsy
bronchoalveolar
lavage
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