Fungal and bacterial diseases, directly infecting various parts of body, have received much attention in recent years. Bacterial infections, such as Tinea Pedis, Pityriasis versicolor and Mycetoma can secondarily occur in superficial fungal damaged skin. They often occur in immune compromised individuals including diabetics and patients with peripheral arterial diseases. Mycetoma infections can...

diseased area. References.?It can be affirmed definitely that the occurrence of actinomycosis in human subject is very rare in India, as I find no mention of a single case in the record of the last thirty years ; though an allied fungal infection of the foot called mycetoma has ibeen recorded by many eminent workers in India from a long time. The names of Vandyke Carter, Kanthack, Boyce and Sur...

Abstract Species of the genus Microascus are uncommon agents human diseases despite their ubiquitous presence in environment. In this communication, first case white grain eumycetoma caused by fungus gracilis is reported. The patient was initially misdiagnosed as having actinomycetoma based on grains morphological and cytological features treated with antimicrobial therapy no clinical improveme...

A 59-year-old female farm worker developed a dark-centered cutaneous lesion in her right leg, associated with progressive swelling for the past 35 years. During the past 4 years, she also had dry cough and dyspnea, which became more intense for the past 6 months. She complained of asthe-nia and weight loss of 10 kg in the previous year. The patient had diabetes mellitus and hypertension. On phy...

Civil Surgeon, Pcrtabgarh. I.?Case of Mycetoma of the hand. Mussamat Doolaree, aged 30, presented herself at the Pertabgarh Dispensary on the 1st January 1880. She stated that 3 years ago a swelling began on the dorsal aspect of the little finger of the left hand. It slowly increased up to May last, when, however, it took an active growth. When admitted an oval tumour, 2 inches in its longest d...

In Mexico mycetomas are mostly produced by Nocardia brasiliensis, which can be isolated from about 86% of cases. In the present work, we determined the sensitivities of 30 N. brasiliensis strains isolated from patients with mycetoma to several groups of antimicrobials. As a first screening step we carried out disk diffusion assays with 44 antimicrobials, including aminoglycosides, cephalosporin...

A 76-year-old male non-smoker presented to our institution with cough and haemoptysis. He had been treated for cavitatory pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the right upper lobe 10 years previously. Chest radiograph and subsequent computed tomography (CT) of the chest demonstrated a right upper cavity containing a mass suspicious for mycetoma. Flexible bronchoscopy under conscious sedation...