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Lesion on the foot showing two discharging sinuses.
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The swelling progressively increased in size in next two months with appearance of two discharging sinuses (Figure 1).
Wet mount from culture stained with Lactophenol Cotton Blue (LCB) showing brown pigmented septate hyphae with intercalary chlamydospores (arrow) characteristic of Madurella mycetomatis.
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The culture of the discharged granules in Sabouraud's dextrose agar (SDA) grew Madurella mycetomatis (Figure 2) after an incubation for 12 days.