Exophiala jeanselmei causing mycetoma pedis in India

Exophiala jeanselmei causing mycetoma pedis in a 65-year-old Bengalee businessman was described. The right lower leg and foot were irregularly swollen, firm, painless, non-tender and had many small nodules and sinuses all over the swelling. The lower end of the tibia and bones of the foot were affected. The discharge from the sinuses and nodules contained black brown, soft, vermicular, crescent-shaped to irregular granules, measuring 0.5--2.00 mm and composed mostly of swollen spherical cells, 4-8 micrometer diameter, and a few hyphae, 2.5--3.0 micrometer diameter. The isolate was polymorphic in nature and exhibited various morphological features such as yeast-like cells producing secondary conidia, toruloid hyphae, and terminal and intercalary annellophores bearing annelloconidia at one or more points.