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CASE REPORT article

Front. Med.
Sec. Infectious Diseases: Pathogenesis and Therapy
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1435239
This article is part of the Research Topic Gastrointestinal Tract Infections: A Global Perspective View all 16 articles

A Rare Intestinal Mucormycosis Caused by Lichtheimia ramosa in a Patient with Diabetes: A Case Report

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Meijie Jiang Meijie Jiang *Liu Qinqin Liu Qinqin Ping Chen Ping Chen Xin Li Xin Li Jiahao Zhang Jiahao Zhang
  • Tai'an City Central Hospital, Tai’an, China

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    Mucormycosis is an aggressive fungal disease. Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is rare, but its clinical symptoms lack specificity and mortality is high. Here, we report a case of intestinal mucormycosis caused by Lichtheimia ramosa in a 65-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus. The patient exhibited extensive mucosal tissue damage in the colon, with broad, undivided filamentous fungal hyphae present in the intestinal tissue. Therefore, the patient was suspected to have a filamentous fungal infection. Colonic tissue samples were obtained for fungal culture, and the fungus was identified as L. ramosa based on morphology and DNA sequencing. This case highlights the importance of pathologists and microbiologists in identifying pathogenic fungi and the significance of screening for mucormycosis in high-risk patient populations.

    Keywords: Fungal Infection, diabetes, Mucormycosis, intestinal infection, Lichtheimia ramosa

    Received: 20 May 2024; Accepted: 27 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Jiang, Qinqin, Chen, Li and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Meijie Jiang, Tai'an City Central Hospital, Tai’an, China

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