ABSTRACT
The burden of human infection due to Colletotrichum species is clearly not known due to lack of awareness of this agent in causing disease and availability of few reports. However, three series of mycotic keratitis reported by Fernandez et al.,12 Kaliamurthy et al.,29 and Marangon et al.30 had shown that Colletotrichum was the causative agent in 2.8% (10 of 360), 1.9% (7 of 378), and 3.0% (14 of 467) of cases, respectively. Reported human infection due to Colletotrichum species is summarized in Table 49.2. Most patients with Colletotrichum keratitis are rural agricultural
workers. Although precedent history of injury to the eye is obvious in the majority of cases, occasional minor unnoticed trauma may be the possible reason in a few cases.
