Agents of human chromoblastomycosis,a skin disease almost exclusively caused by members of the order chaetothyriales,are assumed to be traumatically inoculated into the skin with sharp environmental materials such as ...
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Agents of human chromoblastomycosis,a skin disease almost exclusively caused by members of the order chaetothyriales,are assumed to be traumatically inoculated into the skin with sharp environmental materials such as plant thorns or wooden splinters carrying the respective *** the supposition that such fungi should have their main habitat in the environment,we investigated the occurrence of black fungi in living areas of patients with *** South America Fonsecaea agents are prevalent as agents of the disease,while also related cladophialophora species,known from other types of skin infections,are known from the *** environmental isolates were preliminarily selected as possible agents of chromoblastomycosis,based on *** from ITS sequence data isolates were attributed to the genera cladophialophora,cyphellophora,Exophiala,Fonsecaea,Phialophora,and Veronaea.A total of 45 fungi morphologically identified as Fonsecaea or cladophialophora isolated from debris and thorns of living prickly plants in Brazil were processed for taxonomic *** analysis revealed that the isolates indeed belonged to the chaetothyriales,but only rarely an agent of chromoblastomycosis was concerned;only two strains of *** and one *** were isolated from debris *** remaining isolates belonged to hitherto unknown molecular siblings of *** novel taxa are introduced.
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