First human case of fungal keratitis caused by a putatively novel species of lophotrichus

Allen O. Eghrari; Connie Gibas; Tonya Watkins; Sina Vahedi; Rick Lee; Elizabeth Houle; Maria Jose Suarez; Charles Eberhart; Deanna A. Sutton; Nathan P. Wiederhold; Shameema Sikder; Sean X. Zhang

doi:10.1128/JCM.00471-15

First human case of fungal keratitis caused by a putatively novel species of lophotrichus

Allen O. Eghrari, Connie Gibas, Tonya Watkins, Sina Vahedi, Rick Lee, Elizabeth Houle, Maria Jose Suarez, Charles Eberhart, Deanna A. Sutton, Nathan P. Wiederhold, Shameema Sikder, Sean X. Zhang

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Wereport an aggressive fungal keratitis caused by a putatively novel species of Lophotrichus in a patient with traumatic injury to the cornea from a dog paw. The organism was isolated from the patient's necrotic cornea, which perforated despite coverage with hourly fortified broad-spectrum topical antibiotic therapy. This report represents the first case of human infection caused by this species.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3063-3067
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume	53
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00471-15
State	Published - Sep 1 2015

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First human case of fungal keratitis caused by a putatively novel species of lophotrichus

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