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Case Reports
. 1998 Sep;36(9):2763-5.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.36.9.2763-2765.1998.

Phaeohyphomycosis caused by Phaeoacremonium inflatipes

A A Padhye  1 , M S Davis, D Baer, A Reddick, K K Sinha, J Ott
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Case Reports

Phaeohyphomycosis caused by Phaeoacremonium inflatipes

A A Padhye et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1998 Sep.

Abstract

Phaeoacremonium inflatipes, one of three species previously classified as strains of Phialophora parasitica, was identified as the causal agent of a subcutaneous infection of the left foot of an 83-year-old woman from South Carolina. The patient had a granulomatous growth over the anteromedial aspect of her left foot. It was surgically excised, which led to complete healing without complications. Tissue sections of the excised mass stained with hematoxylin and eosin and Gomori's methenamine silver strains showed many septate hyphal elements of various lengths, some exhibiting brownish pigment in the cell walls of the hyphae. Portions of the tissue, when cultured, yielded many colonies which were initially glabrous, off white becoming velvety, greyish brown on aging. Microscopically, their hyphae were septate, branched, and phaeoid and bore lateral and terminal, erect, septate conidiophores. The conidiogenous cells (phialides) were terminal or lateral, mostly monophialidic, subcylindrical to spinelike in shape, and constricted at their bases and bore funnel-shaped, inconspicuous collarettes at their tips. The conidia were subhyaline, oblong, and ellipsoid to allantoid.

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FIG. 1
FIG. 1
Short, septate hyphal elements of P. inflatipes in biopsied tissue stained by GMS. Original magnification, ×875.
FIG. 2
FIG. 2
Slide culture on PDA of P. inflatipes showing subcylindric phialides that are constricted at their bases and have inconspicuous collarettes and ellipsoid to allantoid conidia. Original magnification, ×1,000.
FIG. 3
FIG. 3
Slide culture on PDA showing polyphialidic and percurrent (arrow) conidiogenous cells of P. inflatipes and conidia. Original magnification, ×1,000.
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