title: "Fruiting bodies" of aspergillus on the skin of a burned patient.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001228:Aspergillosis; D001232:Aspergillus fumigatus; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000209:etiology*