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Antifungal Susceptibility and Phylogeny of Opportunistic Members of the Genus Fusarium Causing Human Keratomycosis in South India.
Medical mycology - 1 Mar 2016
Hassan Anamangadan Shafeeq, Al-Hatmi Abdullah M S, Shobana Coimbatore Subramanian, van Diepeningen Anne D, Kredics László, Vágvölgyi Csaba, Homa Mónika, Meis Jacques F, de Hoog G Sybren, Narendran Venkatapathy, Manikandan Palanisamy
Abstract excerpt
Fusarium species are reported frequently as the most common causative agents of fungal keratitis in tropical countries such as India. Sixty-five fusaria isolated from patients were subjected to multilocus DNA sequencing to characterize the spectrum of the species associated with keratitis infections in India. Susceptibilities of these fusaria to ten antifungals were determined in vitro by the broth microdilution...
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