“Fruiting Bodies” of Aspergillus on the Skin of a Burned Patient
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- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 69 (2) , 188-189
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/69.2.188
Abstract
Panke, Thomas W., McManus, Albert T., Jr., and McLeod, Charles G., Jr.: “Fruiting bodies” of Aspergillus on the skin of a burn patient. Am J Clin Pathol 69: 188–189, 1978. A case of a young man with an extensive total-body-surface burn complicated by wound infection is presented. One of the fungal organisms in the cutaneous burn wound had morphologically characteristic and diagnostic features by development of conidiophores (“fruiting bodies”) pathognomonic of Aspergillus spp.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: