[Chromoblastomycosis caused by a new species: Taeniolella boppii]

The authors report a case of a 51-year-old woman, living in the extreme west of the Santa Catarina State (South of Brazil, near the Argentine border), who presented a vegetating plaque in the foot, associated with inflammatory nodules in the leg, according to the sporotrichoid form of chromoblastomycosis, with a histologic pattern distinct from the commonly observed. In culture the fungus produced exclusively and repeatidly colonies of a Cladosporium type. More detailed studies of the fungus made by Dante Borelli of Venezuela, proved it to be the type of a new species of Dematiaceous mould.