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Case Reports
. 2007 Oct;45(10):3464-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00920-07. Epub 2007 Aug 15.

Case of keratitis caused by Aspergillus tamarii

László Kredics  1 , János Varga, Sándor Kocsubé, Ilona Dóczi, Robert A Samson, Revathi Rajaraman, Venkatapathy Narendran, Madhavan Bhaskar, Csaba Vágvölgyi, Palanisamy Manikandan
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Case of keratitis caused by Aspergillus tamarii

László Kredics et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Oct.

Abstract

We report a case of Aspergillus tamarii keratitis. Ocular injury was known to be a predisposing factor. Topical natamycin and econazole treatment and subsequent systemic ketoconazole treatment proved effective. The isolate was identified by morphological characteristics and sequence analysis as A. tamarii, a member of Aspergillus section Flavi not hitherto reported from keratomycosis.

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Conidial head of A. tamarii 2342/05.
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Conidia of a typical A. tamarii strain (CBS 484.65) (A) and that of A. tamarii 2342/05 (B). The scale bar represents 10 μm.
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