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JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 23, Issue 9, Pages 651-654Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiac.2017.03.005
Keywords
Keratomycosis; Micafungin; Roussoella solani; Phylogeny; Taxonomy
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26291084, 15H04491, 16K07474, 26462634] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We describe an 82-year-old male farmer who had diabetes mellitus with no history of ocular trauma by soil or plants and who developed a corneal infection due to a fungus. The organism was identified as Roussoella solani based on both the morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis using LSU and ITS nrDNA sequences. The sexual stage of R. solani is described and illustrated for the first time. The patient was treated successfully with a combination of topical and systemic voriconazole and micafungin. This case is the first report of keratomycosis caused by R. solani. (C) 2017 Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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