The mycetoma is a pathological condition in which fungal or actinomycotic exogenous agents produce parasitic buds [1]. It is a chronic infectious disease that mostly affects the foot and, more rarely, other parts of the body [2-4]. The rural population is most exposed to the infection due to small injuries sustained in contact with thorny shrubs harboring the infectious agents [3,5]. Gill, was ...

Mycetoma is a tropical disease which is caused by a taxonomically diverse range of actinomycetes (actinomycetoma) and fungi (eumycetoma). The disease was only recently listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a neglected tropical disease (NTD). This recognition is the direct result of a meeting held in Geneva on February 1, 2013, in which experts on the disease from around the world met...

Background: Actinomycetoma is a chronic infection of cutis, subcutaneous, bone, and viscera tissue. It characterized by sinuses containing masses causative organisms often referred to as "grains." caused aerobic bacteria, they have been misclassified fungal species. Diagnosis actinomycetoma was based on clinical features confirmation direct examination. This study aimed describe the histopathol...

Few infections are as mysterious as mycetoma. One thing, however, is certain: it is a horrific disease. Patients endure swelling, sores, and pus-filled lesions. If it spreads, and without treatment it often does, the consequences are devastating. It can prove fatal—for example, if the pulmonary system is invaded, or if the patient develops sepsis (secondary bacterial infections are common). Fle...

Mycetoma is caused by the subcutaneous inoculation of filamentous fungi or aerobic filamentous bacteria that form grains in the tissue. The purpose of this study is to describe the epidemiologic, clinic, laboratory, and therapeutic characteristics of patients with mycetoma at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 1991 and 2014. Twenty-one cases of mycetoma were included...

Mycetoma is a localized chronic, suppurative, and deforming granulomatous infection seen in tropical and subtropical areas. It is a disorder of subcutaneous tissue, skin and bones, mainly of feet, characterized by a triad of localized swelling, underlying sinus tracts, and production of grains or granules. Etiological classification divides it into eumycetoma caused by fungus, and actinomycetom...