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Mycetoma associated with Acremonium falciforme infection
J G McCormack1, P B McIntyre, M H Tilse
1Mater Misericordiae Adult Hospital, South Brisbane, Qld.
The Medical Journal of Australia
|August 17, 1987
Abstract:
A patient from Vanuatu with a mycetoma of the foot of 25 years' duration is described. Culture of a biopsy specimen from the foot grew a fungus which was identified as Acremonium falciforme. This agent has not been described previously in association with mycetomas in the Pacific region.