Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2018

FUNGAL SINUSITIS - A CLINICAL APPROACH

Kousalya. M, Vinithra Suresh, Nachammai. Sm

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The present study is the prospective one which explores about the prevalence of fungal infections in the chronic sinusitis patients in a tertiary care hospital from November 2016 – April 2017. The sample from sinusitis was subjected to direct microscopy using 10% KOH and the culturing was done on SDA with antibiotic and PDA plate. The plates were incubated at 2 different temperatures 37°C and 28°C respectively and were checked habitually upto 4 weeks. The colony morphology of the culture was noted and then subjected to LPCB mount and slide culture technique for further identification. Out of 56 clinical samples, 15 shows culture positive and 26 shows KOH positive. Among the culture positive, dominant fungi isolated was Aspergillus species followed by Bipolaris species. Compå with other studies, Aspergillus species found to be more predominant in the chronic rhinosinusitis patients.

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Kousalya.M, Vinithra Suresh, Nachammai.SM, FUNGAL SINUSITIS‾A CLINICAL APPROACH, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-3 | March-2018

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