Abstract Background Mycetoma is a neglected disease, which socioeconomically important, and with the possibility of permanent disability in infected persons if not treated early. This especially true resource-limited settings such as West Africa, where there lack facilities skilled personnel to make definitive laboratory diagnosis. Countries Africa have similar climatic conditions Sudan. The ma...

The object of the present paper is to place before the profession such clinical points observed by me as might help to elucidate the vexed question in the history of this curious disease; whether of the two varieties, the one is only a defaced form of the other; as Dr. Vandyke Carter has indicated in his investigations; or, whether they are perfectly independent forms of funo-al growths. Dr. Ca...