In 2012, a case report of keratomycosis in a healthy 46-year-old farmer, found E. rostratum as the cause of corneal infection after an incident of local trauma with vegetable matter [REF].
In 2012, E. rostratum was responsible for the nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis in the U.S caused by contaminated corticosteroid injections from the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, Massachusetts [REF].