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SUBMITTER: Squissato V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4480352 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medical mycology case reports 20150605
We present a case of Colletotrichum truncatum species complex fungal keratitis and endophthalmitis in an 87-year-old immunocompetent male in whom oral triazole antifungals were contraindicated. The patient had recently returned from 4 months in Jamaica with a one month history of progressively increasing pain and inflammation in his left eye. Corneal samples grew a filamentous fungus and internal transcribed spacer sequencing polymerase chain reaction confirmed the presence of C. truncatum speci ...[more]