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SUBMITTER: Vera-Cabrera L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7941817 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20210104 3
Mycetoma is an infrequent subcutaneous infection caused by true fungi (eumycetoma) or aerobic actinomycetes (actinomycetoma). We report the case of a 62-year-old man with eumycetoma involving the left foot and ankle. Skin biopsy revealed black-brown grains, and in culture, a white colony fungus grew at day 8. Molecular sequencing using ITS1-ITS4 primers identified the species as Aspergillus sydowii. The patient was treated with itraconazole 200 mg twice daily and terbinafine 250 mg daily for 8 m ...[more]