Breaking New Ground: First Case of Keratitis by Apiospora.

Apiospora Fungal Keratitis cornea

Journal

Indian journal of medical microbiology
ISSN: 1998-3646
Titre abrégé: Indian J Med Microbiol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8700903

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
22 Aug 2024
Historique:
received: 08 03 2024
revised: 08 08 2024
accepted: 21 08 2024
medline: 26 8 2024
pubmed: 26 8 2024
entrez: 24 8 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Fungi belonging to Apiospora are phytopathogens not reported from human infections. Here, we report a case of keratitis due to Apiospora species in a carpenter who sustained a bamboo shrapnel injury to his eye when he was not wearing safety goggles. Thin hyaline septate hyphae were found on calcofluor white with potassium hydroxide (Calco-KOH) preparation of the scraping. A nonsporulating white mold grew from the corneal scrape, identified as A. rasikravindrae by Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region sequencing. The patient improved with debridement and topical antifungal therapy. Educational interventions are needed to encourage safety goggles to prevent corneal injuries and blindness.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmmb.2024.100711 PMID: 39181332
pubmed: 39181332
pii: S0255-0857(24)00186-5
doi: 10.1016/j.ijmmb.2024.100711
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

100711

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024 Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper

Auteurs

Diptanu Paul (D)

Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar-751019, Odisha, India. Electronic address: diptanupaul04@gmail.com.

Bruttendu Moharana (B)

Department of Opthalmology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar-751019, Odisha, India. Electronic address: ophthal_bruttendu@aiimsbhubaneswar.edu.in.

Shraddha B Sawant (SB)

Advanced Molecular and Diagnostics Research Centre For Fungi for fungi in East India, Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar-751019, Odisha, India. Electronic address: sbsawant56@gmail.com.

Supriya Sahu (S)

Advanced Molecular and Diagnostics Research Centre For Fungi for fungi in East India, Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar-751019, Odisha, India. Electronic address: sahusupriya89@gmail.com.

Subhasmita Bahinapati (S)

Advanced Molecular and Diagnostics Research Centre For Fungi for fungi in East India, Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar-751019, Odisha, India. Electronic address: subhasmitaprpur98@gmail.com.

Madhuchhanda Das (M)

Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Disease, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi. Electronic address: drmadhuaiims@gmail.com.

Vinaykumar Hallur (V)

ICMR Advanced Molecular Diagnostic and Research Centre for fungi in East India, Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar-751019, Odisha, India. Electronic address: vinay118@gmail.com.

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