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SUBMITTER: Mhmoud NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6542518 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20190530 5
In this communication, a case of black grain eumycetoma produced by the fungus C. atrobrunneum is reported. The patient was initially misdiagnosed with M. mycetomatis eumycetoma based on the grains' morphological and cytological features. However, further aerobic culture of the black grains generated a melanised fungus identified as C. atrobrunneum by conventional morphological methods and by internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) ribosomal RNA gene sequencing. This is the first-ever report of C. ...[more]