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Case Reports
. 1999 Sep;37(9):2927-30.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.37.9.2927-2930.1999.

Onychomycosis caused by Blastoschizomyces capitatus

D D'Antonio  1 , F Romano, A Iacone, B Violante, P Fazii, E Pontieri, T Staniscia, C Caracciolo, S Bianchini, R Sferra, A Vetuschi, E Gaudio, G Carruba
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Onychomycosis caused by Blastoschizomyces capitatus

D D'Antonio et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1999 Sep.

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.

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FIG. 1
Annelloconidia developing from conidiogenous cells in thumbnail (A and B). (B) Enlargement of the image outlined in panel A.
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RFLP analysis of whole-cell DNAs of B. capitatus isolates after digestion with BglII (lanes 1 to 4) and HpaII (lanes 5 to 8). Lanes: 1, nail isolate; 2, ATCC 200929 (blood isolate); 3, ATCC 62964 (clinical isolate); 4, ATCC 62963 (clinical isolate); M, size markers (HindIII digest of bacteriophage lambda DNA); 5, nail isolate; 6, ATCC 200929 (blood isolate); 7, ATCC 62964 (clinical isolate); 8, ATCC 62963 (clinical isolate). Numbers on the right are in kilobases.
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