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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 282-284 |
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A case report of white grain eumycetoma caused by Scedosporium apiospermum in a tertiary care hospital of the Eastern India
Kalidas Rit1, Rajdeep Saha2, Parthasarathi Chakrabarty3, Bipasa Chakraborty1
1 Department of Microbiology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Microbiology, National Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
3 Department of Microbiology, Sagar Dutta Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Kalidas Rit
70B T. C. Mukherjee Street, Rishra Post, Hooghly - 712 248, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2321-4848.171925
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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.
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