[Scedosporium apiospermum-a rare pathogen of keratomycosis].

Ophthalmologe

Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Institut für Virologie, Zentralbereich für Klinische Infektiologie, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Deutschland.

Published: December 2020

This article presents the case of a 44-year-old contact lens wearer who presented with acute keratitis resistant to antibacterial treatment in the right eye. The anterior segment of the eye showed circular conjunctival hyperemia, a corneal white cell infiltrate with radiating margins and a central corneal erosion. Microbiological investigation of a corneal scraping revealed growth of Scedosporium apiospermum. Intensive antimycotic treatment and several corneal collagen crosslinking procedures were performed; however, because of rapidly evolving necrotizing ulcerative keratitis, a keratoplasty à chaud was carried out.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00347-020-01073-xDOI Listing

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