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SUBMITTER: Hemashettar BM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1698411 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hemashettar B M BM Siddaramappa B B Munjunathaswamy B S BS Pangi A S AS Pattan Jayashree J Andrade A T AT Padhye A A AA Mostert Lizel L Summerbell R C RC
Journal of clinical microbiology 20060927 12
We describe the first case of white grain pedal eumycetoma caused by Phaeoacremonium krajdenii in a 41-year-old man from Goa, India. Based on histological examination of biopsy tissue showing serpentine granules, a culture of the granules yielding phaeoid fungal colonies, and morphological characteristics and sequence comparison of the partial beta-tubulin gene with the ex-type isolate of P. krajdenii, the causal agent was identified as P. krajdenii. ...[more]