First report of rhinosinusitis caused by Neoscytalidium dimidiatum in Iran

Mandana Bakhshizadeh; Hamid Reza Hashemian; Mohammad Javad Najafzadeh; Somayeh Dolatabadi; Hossein Zarrinfar

doi:10.1099/jmm.0.065292-0

First report of rhinosinusitis caused by Neoscytalidium dimidiatum in Iran

J Med Microbiol. 2014 Jul;63(Pt 7):1017-1019. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.065292-0. Epub 2014 May 21.

Authors

Mandana Bakhshizadeh¹, Hamid Reza Hashemian¹, Mohammad Javad Najafzadeh², Somayeh Dolatabadi^{3

4}, Hossein Zarrinfar^{5

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Microbiology and Pathology, Razavi Hospital, Mashhad, Iran.
² Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
³ Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁵ Allergy Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

PMID: 24850881
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.065292-0

Abstract

The study describes isolation of Neoscytalidium dimidiatum from a case of eosinophilic fungal rhinosinusitis (EFRS). The isolate was identified by routine mycological methods and confirmed by DNA sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of rDNA. To our knowledge, this is the first report of its kind from Iran.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Ascomycota / classification*
Ascomycota / isolation & purification*
DNA, Fungal / genetics
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / genetics
Humans
Iran
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Mycoses / microbiology*
Rhinitis / microbiology*
Sinusitis / microbiology*
Young Adult

Substances

DNA, Fungal
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer

Associated data

GENBANK/KF571862