and Rare Fungal Keratitis: Case Series, DNA Sequencing, Antifungal Susceptibility Patterns.

Purpose: We report two cases of fungal keratitis due to rare melanized fungal pathogens in ocular infection, one is the first case report of keratitis due to and the second is keratitis due to rare fungal pathogen in ocular infections .

Method: Conventional mycology during routine diagnostics helped in identifying these rare fungal isolates, following which we proceeded for the confirmation of identification by DNA sequencing and did antifungal susceptibility test to understand their susceptibility pattern. The clinical information for these two patients were collected from hospital electronic medical records.