ABSTRACT
A mycotic keratitis case which was caused by Curvularia lunata var. aeria in a patient with an injury in the eye is described. The diagnosis was based on the mycologic analysis of several samples taken from the ulcer of cornea. In vitro tests of the sensitivity of the isolated species to several antifungal drugs were made. The results were related to the response in vivo to the treatment.
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Cornea/pathology , Keratitis/microbiology , Mitosporic Fungi/isolation & purification , Mycoses/microbiology , Aged , Eye Injuries/complications , Humans , Keratitis/pathology , Male , Miconazole/pharmacology , Mitosporic Fungi/drug effects , Mycoses/pathology , Natamycin/pharmacology , Nystatin/pharmacologyABSTRACT
Colonies of Trichophyton ajelloi, geophilic dermatophyte that was here obtained for the first time as a dermatophytosis etiological agent, was isolated from a lesion fixed in the upper zone of the left cheek bone in the face of a six years old girl.
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Dermatomycoses/microbiology , Tinea/microbiology , Trichophyton/isolation & purification , Child , Face , Female , Humans , Spores, Fungal/isolation & purification , Trichophyton/cytology , ZygomaABSTRACT
By using the double pour plate method, Yeasts Extract Agar (YE) which contained a high concentration of chloramphenicol-streptomycin sulfate and cycloheximide,, and by inoculating mice intraperitoneally, we succeed in the isolation of different strains of Coccidicides immitis from 12 samples of the soils collected in the province of San Luis and from 1 of the province of Mendoza (Argentina), a 70% of the samples turned out positive. Identification of the strains was based on macro- and micro-morphology of the colonies, pathogenicity for mice and the capacity to transform in shaked cultures.
