EXOPHIALA-JEANSELMEI CAUSING MYCETOMA PEDIS IN INDIA

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 18  (2) , 91-95
Abstract
E. jeanselmei causing mycetoma pedis in a 65 yr old Bengalee businessman was described. The right lower leg and foot were irregularly swollen, firm, painless, non-tender and had many small nodules and sinuses all over the swelling. The lower end of the tibia and bones of the foot were affected. The discharge from the sinuses and nodules contained black-brown, soft, vermicular, crescent-shaped to irregular granules measuring 0.5-2.00 mm and composed mostly of swollen spherical cells 4-8 .mu.m diameter and a few hyphae 2.5-3.0 .mu.m diameter. The isolate was polymorphic in nature and exhibited various morphological features such as yeast-like cells producing secondary conidia, toruloid hyphae and terminal and intercalary annelophores bearing annelloconidia at 1 or more points.

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