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Keratitis caused by Aspergillus pseudotamarii.

ABSTRACT: A male patient presented with complaints of redness, pain and defective vision in the left eye. The infiltrate healed completely after two weeks of topical natamycin administration. A polyphasic approach was used to identify the isolate as Aspergillus pseudotamarii, which produced aflatoxins in inducing medium.

SUBMITTER: Baranyi N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3885925 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Keratitis caused by Aspergillus pseudotamarii.

Baranyi Nikolett N Kocsubé Sándor S Szekeres András A Raghavan Anita A Narendran Venkatapathy V Vágvölgyi Csaba C Panneer Selvam Kanesan K Babu Singh Yendremban Randhir YR Kredics László L Varga János J Manikandan Palanisamy P

Medical mycology case reports 20130412

A male patient presented with complaints of redness, pain and defective vision in the left eye. The infiltrate healed completely after two weeks of topical natamycin administration. A polyphasic approach was used to identify the isolate as Aspergillus pseudotamarii, which produced aflatoxins in inducing medium. ...[more]

PMID: 24432226

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