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First report of a new corneal pathogen: Phaeoacremonium parasiticum
Keratitis is a public health issue in developing countries and a potentially sight-threatening condition. Collagen fibrils in the corneal stroma are parallels to each other. Fundamental substance maintains the same space between collagen fibrils. That is how corneal transparency can be achieved. Any...
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author | Massa, Horace Riat, Arnaud Panos, Georgios D. |
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description | Keratitis is a public health issue in developing countries and a potentially sight-threatening condition. Collagen fibrils in the corneal stroma are parallels to each other. Fundamental substance maintains the same space between collagen fibrils. That is how corneal transparency can be achieved. Any damage which can modify this structure will lead to corneal opacity and loss of vision. Fungal keratitis might appear in up to one-third of cases. Nevertheless, fungal keratitis remains poorly described and understood. Herein, we present the first ever reported case of corneal infection due to Phaeoacremonium parasiticum in a young patient. We describe the clinical and microbial characteristics, and we also discuss the use of confocal microscopy in early diagnosis of this infection. |
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spelling | pubmed-76697722020-11-17 First report of a new corneal pathogen: Phaeoacremonium parasiticum Massa, Horace Riat, Arnaud Panos, Georgios D. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis Brief Report Keratitis is a public health issue in developing countries and a potentially sight-threatening condition. Collagen fibrils in the corneal stroma are parallels to each other. Fundamental substance maintains the same space between collagen fibrils. That is how corneal transparency can be achieved. Any damage which can modify this structure will lead to corneal opacity and loss of vision. Fungal keratitis might appear in up to one-third of cases. Nevertheless, fungal keratitis remains poorly described and understood. Herein, we present the first ever reported case of corneal infection due to Phaeoacremonium parasiticum in a young patient. We describe the clinical and microbial characteristics, and we also discuss the use of confocal microscopy in early diagnosis of this infection. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-07-12 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7669772/ /pubmed/32656620 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-020-03980-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Massa, Horace Riat, Arnaud Panos, Georgios D. First report of a new corneal pathogen: Phaeoacremonium parasiticum |
title | First report of a new corneal pathogen: Phaeoacremonium parasiticum |
title_full | First report of a new corneal pathogen: Phaeoacremonium parasiticum |
title_fullStr | First report of a new corneal pathogen: Phaeoacremonium parasiticum |
title_full_unstemmed | First report of a new corneal pathogen: Phaeoacremonium parasiticum |
title_short | First report of a new corneal pathogen: Phaeoacremonium parasiticum |
title_sort | first report of a new corneal pathogen: phaeoacremonium parasiticum |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669772/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32656620 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-020-03980-y |
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