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Black grain mycetoma caused byLeptosphaeria tompkinsii

Authors :
M. Develoux
J. B. Poirat
A. Bazeli
Stéphane Bretagne
H. Machmachi
N. Godineau
Marie Desnos-Ollivier
D. Amsellem
Hôpital Delafontaine
Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Denis [Ile-de-France]
CHU Tenon [AP-HP]
Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)
Hôpital Henri Mondor
Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Henri Mondor-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)
Centre National de Référence Mycologie et Antifongiques-Mycologie Moléculaire (CNRMA)
Institut Pasteur [Paris]
The authors are grateful to Jeanne Gauthey, Khadidja Kherallah and Hakima Louati for assistance in reviewing the manuscript.
Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)
Source :
Medical Mycology, Medical Mycology, Oxford University Press, 2011, 49 (2), pp.186-189. ⟨10.3109/13693786.2010.524945⟩, Medical Mycology, 2011, 49 (2), pp.186-189. ⟨10.3109/13693786.2010.524945⟩
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011.

Abstract

International audience; Leptosphaeria tompkinsii is a dematiaceous fungus which is rarely reported as an agent of black-grain mycetoma. We present a case involving a mycetoma of the hand of a former farmer from Mali, West Africa, who has been a resident in France for 27 years. The patient was successfully treated with surgery and the use of oral itraconazole for 6 months. Species identification was based on sexual reproductive structures observed on potato-carrot agar media and the use of internal transcribed spacer sequencing.

Details

ISSN :
14602709, 13693786, and 1365280X
Volume :
49
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Medical Mycology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....dd3a32e53aea7a9c3cdcc6d4705a8a87