Case report of a rare fungal corneal ulcer

The dematiaceous fungi appear to be an increasing cause of human disease. This was a case of a patient coming with complaints of watering and irritation of right eye following injury to her eye by a stick. Scrappings from corneal ulcer were sent for gram stain, bacterial and fungal culture. Cladosporium species of fungus was isolated from a patient who presented with a corneal ulcer not responding to natamycin drops. Ointment fluconazole was prescribed along with natamycin, moxifloxacin and atropine drops. The corneal ulcer began to respond and healed completely.