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Case Reports
. 2009 Oct;47(10):3382-5.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01051-09. Epub 2009 Aug 26.

Mycotic keratitis due to Aspergillus nomius

Palanisamy Manikandan  1 , János Varga, Sándor Kocsubé, Robert A Samson, Raghavan Anita, Rajaraman Revathi, Ilona Dóczi, Tibor Mihály Németh, Venkatapathy Narendran, Csaba Vágvölgyi, Chockaiya Manoharan, László Kredics
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Mycotic keratitis due to Aspergillus nomius

Palanisamy Manikandan et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Oct.

Abstract

We report the first known case of fungal keratitis caused by Aspergillus nomius. Ocular injury was known as a predisposing factor. The patient was treated with natamycin and econazole eye drops, itraconazole eye ointment, and oral ketoconazole. A therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty was performed 16 days after presentation. A sequence-based approach was used to assign the isolate to a species.

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FIG. 1.
Conidial heads (A) and conidia (B) of A. nomius 823/07. Scale bars, 200 μm (A) and 10 μm (B).
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