Date: 26 November 2013
Sequence of images showing ocular surface change which unusually predisposed to severe fusarium keratitis in an elderly woman. Successful treatment involved full thickness corneal transplantation shown 2 weeks and then 2 years after surgery
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Kindly provided by Dr Michael Barza.
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Scanning electron micrograph of Aspergillus ochraceopetaliformis conidial heads
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Image D & E. A case of onychomycosis associated with Aspergillus ochraceopetaliformis as described in Nail infection by Aspergillus ochraceopetaliformis. Med Mycol. 2009 Mar 9:1-5, 2009, Brasch J, Varga J, Jensen JM, Egberts F & Tintelnot K
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Image 5. Oral itraconazole pulse therapy was given to the patient (200 mg twice daily for 1 week, with 3 weeks off between successive pulses, for four pulses) and treatment was successful.
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This patient was 28 yr old with adult lymphocytic leukaemia. She received induction chemotherapy and this infection developed 2 days after recovering from neutropenia.
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Close-up image of the lesion on the left thigh showing a mat of hyphae over the wound.
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Eosinophilic mucin with A. flavus in the nasal cavity. Irregular crust of 2.5 cm from a patient diagnosed as allergic fungal sinusitis. Patient with allergic fungal sinusitis
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GMS stain of eosinophilic mucin reveals a darkly stained dichotomously branched A. flavus hyphae within cellular background. Patient with allergic fungal sinusitis