Phaeoacremonium krajdenii, a cause of white grain eumycetoma.

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Hemashettar BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1698411 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature