D'Antonio D, Romano F, Iacone A, Violante B, Fazii P, Pontieri E, Staniscia T, Caracciolo C, Bianchini S, Sferra R, Vetuschi A, Gaudio E, Carruba G
Servizio di Microbiologia Clinica del Dipartimento di Ematologia ed Oncologia, Ospedale "Santo Spirito", Pescara e Cattedra di Ematologia, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, l'Aquila, Italy.
J Clin Microbiol. 1999 Sep;37(9):2927-30. doi: 10.1128/JCM.37.9.2927-2930.1999.
Blastoschizomyces capitatus was cultured from the nail of a healthy patient with onychomycosis. The identity of the isolate was initially established by standard methods and ultrastructural analysis and was verified by molecular probing. Strains ATCC 200929, ATCC 62963, and ATCC 62964 served as reference strains for these analyses. To our knowledge, this is the first case of nail infection secondary to paronychia caused by this organism reported in the English literature.
头裂芽生菌是从一名患有甲癣的健康患者的指甲中培养出来的。该分离株的身份最初通过标准方法和超微结构分析得以确定,并通过分子探针进行了验证。菌株ATCC 200929、ATCC 62963和ATCC 62964用作这些分析的参考菌株。据我们所知,这是英文文献中报道的首例由该生物体引起的甲沟炎继发指甲感染病例。