Chronic Otomycosis Due to Malassezia Spp

We report the case of a 31-year-old male presenting with complaints of mild pain in the right ear for three months and hypoacusis for 10 days. On otoscopic examination, a thin, papery, white material was extracted from his ear and sent for fungal identification. This material revealed presence of Ma...

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Autores principales: Latha, R, Sasikala, R, Muruganandam, N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Mycology Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20606976
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.62875
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Sasikala, R
Muruganandam, N
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description We report the case of a 31-year-old male presenting with complaints of mild pain in the right ear for three months and hypoacusis for 10 days. On otoscopic examination, a thin, papery, white material was extracted from his ear and sent for fungal identification. This material revealed presence of Malassezia spp – with characteristic “spaghetti and meat ball appearance”. The patient was treated with 2% acetic acid, hydrocortisone and Clotrimazole powder for one week and he resolved completely.
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spelling pubmed-28896602010-07-06 Chronic Otomycosis Due to Malassezia Spp Latha, R Sasikala, R Muruganandam, N J Glob Infect Dis Mycology Medicine We report the case of a 31-year-old male presenting with complaints of mild pain in the right ear for three months and hypoacusis for 10 days. On otoscopic examination, a thin, papery, white material was extracted from his ear and sent for fungal identification. This material revealed presence of Malassezia spp – with characteristic “spaghetti and meat ball appearance”. The patient was treated with 2% acetic acid, hydrocortisone and Clotrimazole powder for one week and he resolved completely. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2889660/ /pubmed/20606976 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.62875 Text en © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Latha, R
Sasikala, R
Muruganandam, N
Chronic Otomycosis Due to Malassezia Spp
title Chronic Otomycosis Due to Malassezia Spp
title_full Chronic Otomycosis Due to Malassezia Spp
title_fullStr Chronic Otomycosis Due to Malassezia Spp
title_full_unstemmed Chronic Otomycosis Due to Malassezia Spp
title_short Chronic Otomycosis Due to Malassezia Spp
title_sort chronic otomycosis due to malassezia spp
topic Mycology Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20606976
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.62875
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