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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2007, p. 3464-3467, Vol. 45, No. 10
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00920-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Case of Keratitis Caused by Aspergillus tamarii{triangledown}

László Kredics,1 János Varga,1,2 Sándor Kocsubé,1 Ilona Dóczi,3 Robert A. Samson,2 Revathi Rajaraman,4 Venkatapathy Narendran,4 Madhavan Bhaskar,5 Csaba Vágvölgyi,1 and Palanisamy Manikandan4*

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary,1 CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands,2 Department of Clinical Microbiology and Diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary,3 Aravind Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Coimbatore, India,4 Department of Microbiology, Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore, India5

Received 3 May 2007/ Returned for modification 25 June 2007/ Accepted 3 August 2007

We report a case of Aspergillus tamarii keratitis. Ocular injury was known to be a predisposing factor. Topical natamycin and econazole treatment and subsequent systemic ketoconazole treatment proved effective. The isolate was identified by morphological characteristics and sequence analysis as A. tamarii, a member of Aspergillus section Flavi not hitherto reported from keratomycosis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Aravind Eye Care System, Aravind Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Avinashi Road, Coimbatore, 641014 Tamilnadu, India. Phone: 91 4224360400. Fax: 91 4222593030. E-mail: micro{at}cbe.aravind.org

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 15 August 2007.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2007, p. 3464-3467, Vol. 45, No. 10
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00920-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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