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A lactophenol cotton blue wet mount and a Gram-stained smear of the scrapings were made. Scrapings were also inoculated onto various culture media.<jats:italic>Results<\/jats:italic>. Direct microscopy of corneal scrapings revealed moderate numbers of septate fungal hyphae. Greenish-yellow-coloured fungal colonies with aerial mycelium were observed in culture of the corneal scrapes. On the basis of colony characteristics and conidial structure, the fungal isolate was identified as<jats:italic>Chaetomium<\/jats:italic>sp. The patient was treated with topical natamycin (5%) hourly and cyclopentolate 1% drops 3 times a day. After 4 weeks of therapy, the hypopyon had disappeared, the epithelial defect had healed, and the stromal infiltration had almost completely resolved; the visual acuity of the eye improved from hand movements to<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\"><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>(<\/mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mn>1<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\/<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn><\/mml:mrow><mml:mo>)<\/mml:mo><\/mml:mrow><mml:mo>\/<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>60<\/mml:mn><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math>.<jats:italic>Conclusion<\/jats:italic>. 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