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MEDICAL MYCOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 3, Pages 279-284Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1080/13693780701625149
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Neocosmospora vasinfecta; corneal ulcer; keratomycosis; India
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We report a case of Neocosmospora vasinfecta keratitis in a 55-year-old man. While the patient did not recall any specific trauma or eye injury, he might have sustained a trivial wound during the course of his duties as a farmer. Direct examination of corneal scrapings revealed fungal filaments. As topical treatment with natamycin and econazole and subsequent systemic ketoconazole therapy failed, a full thickness therapeutic keratoplasty was performed. Post-operative treatment with amphotericin B and clotrimazole combined with cyclosporine resulted in a complete cure. The residual corneal infiltration in the recipient cornea became clear in a week. The fungal isolate was initially identified as a Fusarium species, but later reidentified through the use of morphological characteristics and sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region as N. vasinfecta. The latters is a Hypocrealean fungus not hitherto reported as a causative agent of keratomycosis.
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