Phaeoacremonium krajdenii, a cause of white grain eumycetoma

J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Dec;44(12):4619-22. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01019-06. Epub 2006 Sep 27.

Abstract

We describe the first case of white grain pedal eumycetoma caused by Phaeoacremonium krajdenii in a 41-year-old man from Goa, India. Based on histological examination of biopsy tissue showing serpentine granules, a culture of the granules yielding phaeoid fungal colonies, and morphological characteristics and sequence comparison of the partial beta-tubulin gene with the ex-type isolate of P. krajdenii, the causal agent was identified as P. krajdenii.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Ascomycota / classification*
  • Ascomycota / genetics
  • Ascomycota / isolation & purification*
  • DNA, Fungal / chemistry
  • DNA, Fungal / genetics
  • Foot Dermatoses / microbiology*
  • Foot Dermatoses / pathology
  • Genes, Fungal
  • Histocytochemistry
  • Humans
  • India
  • Male
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mycetoma / microbiology*
  • Mycetoma / pathology
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Tubulin / genetics

Substances

  • DNA, Fungal
  • Tubulin

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AY057933