Clinical and mycologic findings and therapeutic outcome of 27 mycetoma patients from São Paulo, Brazil

Mycetoma, also known as Madura foot and maduromycosis, is a chronic subcutaneous mycosis caused by exogenous fungi or actinomycetes, which can lead to progressive infection of the skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, and, occasionally, the underlying bone and adjacent organs. 1 It is characterized by tumefaction, subcutaneous nodules containing suppurative granulomas, and draining sinuses discharging exudate with grains, which are formed by colonies of the causal organism. 2

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