A case report of white grain eumycetoma caused by Scedosporium apiospermum in a tertiary care hospital of the Eastern India

A case report of white grain eumycetoma caused by Scedosporium apiospermum in a tertiary care hospital of the Eastern India

Scedosporium apiospermum and its asexual state Pseudallecheria boydiiare increasingly recognized as an opportunistic pathogen. Here, we describe a white grain eumycetoma of left foot of a 48-year-old female caused by S. apiospermum. Treatment with oral voriconazole was successful.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kalidas Rit, Rajdeep Saha, Parthasarathi Chakrabarty, Bipasa Chakraborty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2015-01-01
Series:Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences
Subjects:
Eumycetoma
Scedosporium apiospermum
voriconazole
Online Access:http://www.amhsjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2321-4848;year=2015;volume=3;issue=2;spage=282;epage=284;aulast=Rit

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