Clinical and microbiological profile of patients with fungal keratitis demonstrating unusual yeast-like structures in potassium hydroxide with calcofluor white preparation of corneal scraping

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BACKGROUND: To report a case series of microbial keratitis showing atypical yeast-like structures in direct microscopy which were culture-negative but subsequently identified as yeast cells by PCR and DNA sequencing. MAIN TEXT: This is a retrospective, non-comparative case series of eight patients with infectious keratitis, where smear examination (potassium hydroxide + calcofluor white) showed spore like...

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