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Treatment failure in a case of fungal keratitis caused by Pseudallescheria boydii.

P A Bloom1, D A Laidlaw, D L Easty, D W Warnock.   

Abstract

A case is presented of Pseudallescheria boydii fungal keratitis in an agricultural welder. Treatment with azole antifungal drugs (miconazole and itraconazole) and with penetrating keratoplasty was unsuccessful in eradicating the infection, and eventually the eye was eviscerated.

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Year:  1992        PMID： 1320401      PMCID： PMC504288          DOI： 10.1136/bjo.76.6.367

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Br J Ophthalmol        ISSN： 0007-1161            Impact factor:   4.638


  11 in total

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Authors:  N K Ragge; J C Hart; D L Easty; A G Tyers
Journal:  Br J Ophthalmol       Date:  1990-09       Impact factor: 4.638

2.  Initial therapy of suspected microbial corneal ulcers. II. Specific antibiotic therapy based on corneal smears.

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3.  Oral itraconazole therapy for mycotic keratitis.

Authors:  P A Thomas; D J Abraham; C M Kalavathy; J Rajasekaran
Journal:  Mycoses       Date:  1988-05       Impact factor: 4.377

4.  Monosporium apiospermum endophthalmitis.

Authors:  M I Glassman; P Henkind; E Alture-Werber
Journal:  Am J Ophthalmol       Date:  1973-11       Impact factor: 5.258

5.  Recognition and chemotherapy of oculomycosis.

Authors:  B R Jones; Y M Clayton; E O Oji
Journal:  Postgrad Med J       Date:  1979-09       Impact factor: 2.401

6.  Corneal monosporiosis. A review and report of 1 case.

Authors:  R C Zapater; E J Albesi
Journal:  Ophthalmologica       Date:  1979       Impact factor: 3.250

7.  Endophthalmitis caused by Petriellidium boydii.

Authors:  W L Meadow; M A Tipple; J W Rippon
Journal:  Am J Dis Child       Date:  1981-04

8.  Pseudallescheria boydii infections treated with ketoconazole. Clinical evaluations of seven patients and in vitro susceptibility results.

Authors:  J N Galgiani; D A Stevens; J R Graybill; D L Stevens; A J Tillinghast; H B Levine
Journal:  Chest       Date:  1984-08       Impact factor: 9.410

9.  Visceral fungal infections due to Petriellidium boydii (allescheria boydii). In vitro drug sensitivity studies.

Authors:  L I Lutwick; J N Galgiani; R H Johnson; D A Stevens
Journal:  Am J Med       Date:  1976-11       Impact factor: 4.965

10.  Miconazole therapy for keratomycosis.

Authors:  C S Foster
Journal:  Am J Ophthalmol       Date:  1981-05       Impact factor: 5.258
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  4 in total

1.  Keratomycosis Caused By Graphium eumorphum (Graphium State of Scedosporium apiospermum).

Authors:  Manikandan Palanisamy; Narendran Venkatapathy; Vijayakumar Rajendran; Coimbatore Subramanian Shobana
Journal:  J Clin Diagn Res       Date:  2015-04-01

Review 2.  Infections caused by Scedosporium spp.

Authors:  Karoll J Cortez; Emmanuel Roilides; Flavio Quiroz-Telles; Joseph Meletiadis; Charalampos Antachopoulos; Tena Knudsen; Wendy Buchanan; Jeffrey Milanovich; Deanna A Sutton; Annette Fothergill; Michael G Rinaldi; Yvonne R Shea; Theoklis Zaoutis; Shyam Kottilil; Thomas J Walsh
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  2008-01       Impact factor: 26.132

Review 3.  Current perspectives on ophthalmic mycoses.

Authors:  Philip A Thomas
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  2003-10       Impact factor: 26.132

4.  Activities of amphotericin B and antifungal azoles alone and in combination against Pseudallescheria boydii.

Authors:  T J Walsh; J Peter; D A McGough; A W Fothergill; M G Rinaldi; P A Pizzo
Journal:  Antimicrob Agents Chemother       Date:  1995-06       Impact factor: 5.191
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