Successful treatment of Beauveria bassiana fungal keratitis with topical voriconazole

Akiko Ogawa; Yukihiro Matsumoto; Takashi Yaguchi; Shigeto Shimmura; Kazuo Tsubota

doi:10.1016/j.jiac.2015.10.008

Successful treatment of Beauveria bassiana fungal keratitis with topical voriconazole

Akiko Ogawa, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Takashi Yaguchi, Shigeto Shimmura, Kazuo Tsubota

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	257-260
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
Volume	22
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiac.2015.10.008
Publication status	Published - 2016 Apr

Keywords

Beauveria bassiana
Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty
Fungal keratitis
Voriconazole

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Microbiology (medical)
Pharmacology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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