Abstract

Pulmonary scedosporiosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection of the lungs in humans and mostly it occurs in previously diseased lungs or in immunocompromised patients. We report here a case of 30-year-old female who presented with complaints of cough with expectoration, breathlessness, chest pain and fever since one year ago and was subsequently diagnosed to be suffering from pulmonary scedosporiosis whose causative organism was Allescheria boydii. The patient responded to medical line of management. This is the first case of pulmonary scedosporiosis being reported in an immunocompetent host in association with a long term history of occupational exposure to cow dung

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