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Venugopal V. Taralakshmi, MD(Path); V. Venugopal Pankajalakshmi, MD(Bact); Rangaraj Kamalakannan, MB,BS; Ruth Annamalai, MD, MD(Dermatol); Brahmayar M. V. Shetty, MD(Path); Sundaram Subramanian, MD, DBact(Lond); Trichirapalli K. Shanmugasundaram, MS, MCh, FRCS

Arch Dermatol. 1978;114(2):204-206.

Abstract
• Biopsy specimens from 93 patients with mycetoma were examined histologically; Streptomyces pelletieri was found in 12 cases. In addition, two cases of actinomycetoma pedis in which S pelletieri has been isolated in culture are described. In both, the characteristic red granules were seen.

(Arch Dermatol 114:204-206, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Pathology (Drs Taralakshmi and Shetty) and Dermatology (Dr Annamalai), and the Institute of Microbiology (Drs Pankajalakshmi and Subramanian), Madras Medical College; and the Department of Orthopedics, Stanley Medical College (Drs Shanmugasundaram and Kamalakannan), Madras, India.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 27, 1977.

Reprint requests to Institute of Microbiology, Madras Medical College, Madras 600003, India (Dr Pankajalakshmi).

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