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SUBMITTER: Eghrari AO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4540931 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eghrari Allen O AO Gibas Connie C Watkins Tonya T Vahedi Sina S Lee Rick R Houle Elizabeth E Suarez Maria Jose MJ Eberhart Charles C Sutton Deanna A DA Wiederhold Nathan P NP Sikder Shameema S Zhang Sean X SX
Journal of clinical microbiology 20150624 9
We report an aggressive fungal keratitis caused by a putatively novel species of Lophotrichus in a patient with traumatic injury to the cornea from a dog paw. The organism was isolated from the patient's necrotic cornea, which perforated despite coverage with hourly fortified broad-spectrum topical antibiotic therapy. This report represents the first case of human infection caused by this species. ...[more]