Keratomycosis Caused By Graphium eumorphum (Graphium State of Scedosporium apiospermum)
Published: April 1, 2015 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2015/.5802
Manikandan Palanisamy, Narendran Venkatapathy, Vijayakumar Rajendran, Coimbatore Subramanian Shobana
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University,
Al-Majmaah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Aravind Eye Hospital & Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Coimbatore, India.
2. Chief Medical Officer, Aravind Eye Hospital & Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Coimbatore, India.
3. Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, College of Science Al-Zulfi, Majmaah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
4. Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil nadu, India.
Correspondence
Dr. C.S. Shobana,
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore – 641 014, Tamilnadu, India.
E-mail : shobanasenthilkumar@gmail.com
Graphium eumorphum is rarely associated with mycotic keratitis. We report the case of a 30-year-old female presented with complaints of redness and defective vision in the left eye for one month. Gram staining and 10% KOH wet mount of corneal smears revealed fungal filaments. On potato dextrose agar, fast growing greyish white colonies turning grayish black on maturity was obtained. Lactophenol cotton blue (LPCB) staining confirmed the isolate as Graphium eumorphum. The infection was resolved with the combination of natamycin, econazole and itraconazole.
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