Rare case of fungal keratitis caused by Corynespora cassiicola
H Yamada, N Takahashi, N Hori, Y Asano… - Journal of Infection and …, 2013 - Elsevier
We describe a 76-year-old male farmer with no diabetes mellitus and no history of ocular
trauma from soil or plants who developed a corneal infection from a plant pathogen. The
organism was identified as Corynespora cassiicola based on both the morphological
characteristics and the sequence of the internal transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal
RNA gene. The patient was treated successfully with a combination of topical and systemic
voriconazole. This is the first reported case of keratomycosis caused by C. cassiicola.
trauma from soil or plants who developed a corneal infection from a plant pathogen. The
organism was identified as Corynespora cassiicola based on both the morphological
characteristics and the sequence of the internal transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal
RNA gene. The patient was treated successfully with a combination of topical and systemic
voriconazole. This is the first reported case of keratomycosis caused by C. cassiicola.
