From the Department of Medical Mycology and Parasitology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Presence of fungal agents in lesions of two patients in Tehran was
studied. One of them had clinical symptoms of mycetoma in his foot, and the
other had a skin infection in his arm. Examination of the lesions indicated
Nocardia asteroides. These patients did not show any evidence of nocardia
infection in other parts of the body. Negative results were obtained from the
cultures of blood and sputum.