title: Culture of Rhinosporidium seeberi: preliminary report.
abstract: Every year 400 to 450 cases of Rhinosporidium are reported from Trivandrum Medical College. Twenty-five swabs were collected from patients suffering from Rhinosporidiosis and cultured in standard media. Positive results were obtained in 23 cases. The conidia produced from the colony were compared with the structures obtained from the patient material. Light microscopy using histopathological techniques were used. The consistent appearance of the organism in patient material, the repeatability of growth in subcultures and the negative growth in controls indicated that the organism grown in culture is the causative agent of the disease. The effect of parameters like pH, temperatures, etc, were also studied.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT Medical College Hospital, Trivandrum.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Krishnamoorthy
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Sreedharan
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Koshy
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Anilakumari
mesh_terms: D003470:Culture Media; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007194:India; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D012227:Rhinosporidiosis / Q000382:microbiology; D012228:Rhinosporidium / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013696:Temperature; D014776:Virus Cultivation
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media