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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 2009, p. 1596-1598, Vol. 47, No. 5
0095-1137/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01912-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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New Pyrenochaeta Species Causing Keratitis{triangledown}

Consuelo Ferrer,1* Juan J. Pérez-Santonja,1 Alejandra E. Rodríguez,1 M. Francisca Colom,2 Josepa Gené,3,4 Jorge L. Alio,1,5 Gerard J. M. Verkley,6 and Josep Guarro3,4

Research & Development Department, Vissum Corporation, Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante,1 Mycology Laboratory, School of Medicine,2 Ophthalmology Division, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain,5 Unitat de Microbiologia, Facultat de Medicina,3 IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain,4 CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands6

Received 3 October 2008/ Returned for modification 4 December 2008/ Accepted 2 March 2009

We report a new fungus as an agent of fungal keratitis in a diabetic woman. The fungal etiology was established by classic microbiology and PCR following 3 months of antibacterial therapy. The morphological features of the isolate and sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region indicate a new species of Pyrenochaeta (Coelomycetes).

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Research & Development Department, Vissum Corporation, Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, Avda. de Denia s/n, 03016 Alicante, Spain. Phone and fax: 34-965 16 04 68. E-mail: cferrer{at}vissum.com

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 18 March 2009.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 2009, p. 1596-1598, Vol. 47, No. 5
0095-1137/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01912-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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