Clinical Notes on Mycetoma Differentiating the Pale from the Black Variety

Actinomycotic Mycetoma: Report of 4 cases from Khuzestan province

Mycetoma is a chronic, progressive, and destructive disease primarily caused by actinomycetes. This is a report of 4 cases of actinomycotic mycetomas studied in our hospital during the last five years. The patients included 2 men, 56 and 42 years old, and 2 women, 31 and 52 years old, from Khuzestan province located in the south west of Iran. Clinically all patients presented with mycetoma synd...

A Case of Mycetoma (madura Foot)

~/[ycetoma is a chronic inflammatory process, most commonly affect-hag the tissues of the foot~ in which suppurative nodular swellings, sinus formation, and enlargement and distortion of the parts are prominent features. The bones may become involved and undergo a rarefying osteitis. The affection is characterized by the presence in the diseased tissue and in the discharge from sinuses, of pecu...

Notes on a Case of Fungus Disease of India (Mycetoma or Madura Foot)

Molecular identification of black-grain mycetoma agents.

Black-grain mycetomas are subcutaneous devastating chronic infections due to several dematiaceous fungi. They are diagnosed mostly in tropical countries. Identification of these fungi with standard mycological procedures is difficult because of their poor or delayed sporulation. The aim of this study was thus to assess the accuracy of molecular identification of these fungi. A total of 54 strai...

On the Biology of Black Mycetoma *Read at a Meeting of the Asiatic Society.

In the classical paper 011 streptothricosis contributed by Musgrave CI egg and Polkf in the Philippine Journal of Science, which can be classed as the most exhaustive paper on the subject that has appeared within recent times, the writers describe mycetoma as follows :? A disease consisting of a streptothrix infection of the foot (streptothrix pedis, actinomyces pedis), characterised by a chron...