Disseminated mucormycosis due to Cunninghamella bertholletiae in a liver transplant recipient

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1 January 1988

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)

Vol. 64 (747) , 82-84
https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.64.747.82

Abstract

Summary: Disseminated mucormycosis occurred in a 19 year old female following orthotopic liver transplantation for fulminant Wilson’s disease. The causative organism Cunninghamella bertholletiae has previously been described in ten clinical cases, but never before in this setting.

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