Hemashettar B M, Siddaramappa B, Munjunathaswamy B S, Pangi A S, Pattan Jayashree, Andrade A T, Padhye A A, Mostert Lizel, Summerbell R C
Department of Microbiology, Basaveshwara Medical College, Chitradurga, India.
J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Dec;44(12):4619-22. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01019-06. Epub 2006 Sep 27.
We describe the first case of white grain pedal eumycetoma caused by Phaeoacremonium krajdenii in a 41-year-old man from Goa, India. Based on histological examination of biopsy tissue showing serpentine granules, a culture of the granules yielding phaeoid fungal colonies, and morphological characteristics and sequence comparison of the partial beta-tubulin gene with the ex-type isolate of P. krajdenii, the causal agent was identified as P. krajdenii.