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Volume 26, Number 2—February 2020
Research Letter

Actinomycetoma Caused by Actinomadura mexicana, A Neglected Entity in the Caribbean

Simon BessisComments to Author , Latifa Noussair, Veronica Rodriguez-Nava, Camille Jousset, Clara Duran, Alina Beresteanu, Morgan Matt, Benjamin Davido, Robert Carlier, Emmanuelle Bergeron, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Jean Louis Herrmann, and Aurélien DinhComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Hôpital Universitaire Raymond-Poincaré, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Garches, France (S. Bessis, L. Noussair, C. Jousset, C. Duran, A. Beresteanu, M. Matt, B. Davido, R. Carlier, J.L. Herrmann, A. Dinh); Claude Bernard University–Lyon I, Lyon, France (V. Rodriguez-Nava, E. Bergeron); Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France (P.-E. Fournier); Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille (P.-E. Fournier); Paris-Saclay University, Versailles, France (J.L. Herrmann)

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Actinomycetoma caused by Actinomadura mexicana infection in a 38-year-old woman from Haiti, France. A) Multinodular lesions on the dorsal surface of the left foot. B) Liquid from puncture of the nodules, showing white-yellow grains. C) Gram-positive bacilli branching out, characteristic of actinomycetal bacteria (original magnification ×1000). D) Colonies after an 8-day incubation, showing warty ornamentation, pink to pallid red, convex, with a wrinkled morphology (observed through binocular mag

Figure. Actinomycetoma caused by Actinomadura mexicana infection in a 38-year-old woman from Haiti, France. A) Multinodular lesions on the dorsal surface of the left foot. B) Liquid from puncture of the nodules, showing white-yellow grains. C) Gram-positive bacilli branching out, characteristic of actinomycetal bacteria (original magnification ×1,000). D) Colonies after an 8-day incubation, showing warty ornamentation, pink to pallid red, convex, with a wrinkled morphology (observed through binocular magnifying glass).

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