Phaeoacremonium krajdenii, a cause of white grain eumycetoma
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2006
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Hemashettar B.M.
Siddaramappa B.
Munjunathaswamy B.S.
Pangi A.S.
Pattan J.
Andrade A.T.
Padhye A.A.
Mostert L.
Summerbell R.C.
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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 β-tubulin gene with the ex-type isolate of P. krajdenii, the causal agent was identified as P. krajdenii. Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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beta tubulin, itraconazole, ketoconazole, adult, article, biopsy, case report, eumycetoma, fungus, fungus culture, fungus identification, gene sequence, histopathology, human, human tissue, India, male, nucleotide sequence, Phaeoacremonium krajdenii, priority journal, sequence analysis, white grain eumycetoma, Adult, Ascomycota, DNA, Fungal, Foot Dermatoses, Genes, Fungal, Histocytochemistry, Humans, India, Maduromycosis, Male, Molecular Sequence Data, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Tubulin, Phaeoacremonium krajdenii
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Journal of Clinical Microbiology
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44
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