A fatal case of disseminated zygomycosis associated with the use of blood glucose self-monitoring equipment.
We report a fatal case of disseminated zygomycosis due to Cunninghamella bertholletiae in a 68-year-old man with myelodysplasia and type II diabetes mellitus, receiving desferrioxamine therapy for iron overload secondary to multiple transfusions. It is thought that he acquired the infection through the use of blood glucose self-monitoring equipment.
Hampson
F G
FG
Department of Microbiology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK. fay.hampson@sth.nhs.uk
Ridgway
E J
EJ
Feeley
K
K
Reilly
J T
JT
D000368:Aged; D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D020093:Cunninghamella / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006486:Hemosiderosis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000150:complications