Mycetoma of the Foot Caused byFusarium solani: Identification of the Etiologic Agent by DNA Sequencing

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1 April 2003

journal article
case report
Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Vol. 41 (4) , 1805-1808
https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.41.4.1805-1808.2003

Abstract

We report a case ofFusarium solanimycetoma of the foot that could not be diagnosed by culture, but was correctly identified after amplification and sequence analysis of fungal internal transcribed spacers 1 and 2 and 5.8S ribosomal DNA regions.

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