Medical Must-See: Aussie woman’s rare ‘black fungus’ bowel infection
The case is just one of seven reported in Australia.
It was a lucky, albeit long and arduous, escape for a 63-year-old woman in Adelaide after she became one of only seven cases of gastrointestinal invasive mucormycosis to be reported in Australia.
The rare “opportunistic” infection — also known as black fungus — has a high mortality rate of about 60%.
It is also much more commonly seen in the respiratory tract.
But in this unique case, fungal infection affected multiple areas of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, causing a small bowel perforation as well as gastric and peristomal ulceration.
