Corneal ulcer due to a rare coelomycetes fungus Chaetomium strumarium: Case report and global review of Chaetomium keratomycosis

We present a rare case of corneal ulcer caused by a species of a coelomycetes fungus, Chaetomium strumarium. This fungal genus is a rare causative agent of keratomycosis, with only a handful of cases reported. The clinical presentation, investigative techniques, and preliminary management of our pat...

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Autores principales: Reddy, Mamatha, Venugopal, Ramya, Prakash, Peralam Yegneswaran, Kamath, Yogish Subraya
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28905835
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_254_17
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Venugopal, Ramya
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description We present a rare case of corneal ulcer caused by a species of a coelomycetes fungus, Chaetomium strumarium. This fungal genus is a rare causative agent of keratomycosis, with only a handful of cases reported. The clinical presentation, investigative techniques, and preliminary management of our patient are reported. The cases reported in global literature are also summarized in a tabular form in the discussion.
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spelling pubmed-56212742017-10-04 Corneal ulcer due to a rare coelomycetes fungus Chaetomium strumarium: Case report and global review of Chaetomium keratomycosis Reddy, Mamatha Venugopal, Ramya Prakash, Peralam Yegneswaran Kamath, Yogish Subraya Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications We present a rare case of corneal ulcer caused by a species of a coelomycetes fungus, Chaetomium strumarium. This fungal genus is a rare causative agent of keratomycosis, with only a handful of cases reported. The clinical presentation, investigative techniques, and preliminary management of our patient are reported. The cases reported in global literature are also summarized in a tabular form in the discussion. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5621274/ /pubmed/28905835 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_254_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Brief Communications
Reddy, Mamatha
Venugopal, Ramya
Prakash, Peralam Yegneswaran
Kamath, Yogish Subraya
Corneal ulcer due to a rare coelomycetes fungus Chaetomium strumarium: Case report and global review of Chaetomium keratomycosis
title Corneal ulcer due to a rare coelomycetes fungus Chaetomium strumarium: Case report and global review of Chaetomium keratomycosis
title_full Corneal ulcer due to a rare coelomycetes fungus Chaetomium strumarium: Case report and global review of Chaetomium keratomycosis
title_fullStr Corneal ulcer due to a rare coelomycetes fungus Chaetomium strumarium: Case report and global review of Chaetomium keratomycosis
title_full_unstemmed Corneal ulcer due to a rare coelomycetes fungus Chaetomium strumarium: Case report and global review of Chaetomium keratomycosis
title_short Corneal ulcer due to a rare coelomycetes fungus Chaetomium strumarium: Case report and global review of Chaetomium keratomycosis
title_sort corneal ulcer due to a rare coelomycetes fungus chaetomium strumarium: case report and global review of chaetomium keratomycosis
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28905835
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_254_17
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