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Onychomycosis caused by Blastoschizomyces capitatus
D D'Antonio1, F Romano, A Iacone
1Servizio 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. aniacone@tin.it
Abstract:
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.