Affiliation:
1. SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA; Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology
2. SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA
Abstract
We describe a patient with mycetoma or Madura foot, in which histopathological stains of the bone and surface cultures suggested three different organisms including Nocardia species as the cause. Criteria for the diagnosis of the organisms, differentiation between colonizer and pathogen, and significance of mixed infections are discussed.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),Parasitology
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