Abstract
This article reports on a previously healthy 17-month-old boy who developed pulmonary mucormycosis after a near-drowning incident in a goose pond. The patient survived without neurological sequelae and recovered, under treatment with amphotericin B, from the rare and often invasive fungal infection with Rhizopus spp., usually occurring in immunodeficient patients.
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This work was supported by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (to M. M. G.).
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Gerlach, M.M., Lippmann, N., Kobelt, L. et al. Possible pulmonary Rhizopus oryzae infection in a previously healthy child after a near-drowning incident. Infection 44, 361–364 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-015-0839-x
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