Date: 26 November 2013
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MS is a 59 year old diabetic patient requiring insulin. He had asthma since childhood, previous episodes of vasculitis, a retinopathy and renal dysfunction. In 1997 Mycobacterium avium intracellulare infection of the lung was diagnosed and successfully treated over a 12 month period. Shortly after this treatment was completed an aspergilloma was noted in the right upper lobe in September 1998. This was untreated for 2 years with progressive enlargement of the cavity most consistent with chronic necrotising pulmonary aspergillosis (CNPA), until the patient became unwell, when benefit from itraconazole was seen. Unfortunately the patient subsequently developed a squamous cell carcinoma and died.
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Scanning electron micrograph of Aspergillus ochraceopetaliformis conidial heads
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Image D & E. A case of onychomycosis associated with Aspergillus ochraceopetaliformis as described in Nail infection by Aspergillus ochraceopetaliformis. Med Mycol. 2009 Mar 9:1-5, 2009, Brasch J, Varga J, Jensen JM, Egberts F & Tintelnot K
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Image 5. Oral itraconazole pulse therapy was given to the patient (200 mg twice daily for 1 week, with 3 weeks off between successive pulses, for four pulses) and treatment was successful.
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This patient was 28 yr old with adult lymphocytic leukaemia. She received induction chemotherapy and this infection developed 2 days after recovering from neutropenia.
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Close-up image of the lesion on the left thigh showing a mat of hyphae over the wound.
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Eosinophilic mucin with A. flavus in the nasal cavity. Irregular crust of 2.5 cm from a patient diagnosed as allergic fungal sinusitis. Patient with allergic fungal sinusitis
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GMS stain of eosinophilic mucin reveals a darkly stained dichotomously branched A. flavus hyphae within cellular background. Patient with allergic fungal sinusitis
