TY - JOUR
T1 - Successful treatment of Beauveria bassiana fungal keratitis with topical voriconazole
AU - Ogawa, Akiko
AU - Matsumoto, Yukihiro
AU - Yaguchi, Takashi
AU - Shimmura, Shigeto
AU - Tsubota, Kazuo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
PY - 2016/4
Y1 - 2016/4
N2 - We describe a 66-year-old woman who suffered from fungal keratitis after corneal transplantation. The causative organism was identified as Beauveria bassiana on the basis of morphological characteristics and the sequence of the internal transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal RNA gene. The patient was successfully treated with topical voriconazole (VRCZ) use only. We, hereby, present the first report of a case with B. bassiana fungal keratitis that responded to topical antifungal VRCZ treatment.
AB - We describe a 66-year-old woman who suffered from fungal keratitis after corneal transplantation. The causative organism was identified as Beauveria bassiana on the basis of morphological characteristics and the sequence of the internal transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal RNA gene. The patient was successfully treated with topical voriconazole (VRCZ) use only. We, hereby, present the first report of a case with B. bassiana fungal keratitis that responded to topical antifungal VRCZ treatment.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jiac.2015.10.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jiac.2015.10.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 26603426
AN - SCOPUS:84986218593
SN - 1341-321X
VL - 22
SP - 257
EP - 260
JO - Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
JF - Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
IS - 4
ER -