Cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by Paraconiothyrium cyclothyrioides

J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Nov;50(11):3795-8. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01943-12. Epub 2012 Aug 22.

Abstract

Paraconiothyrium cyclothyrioides is a recently described coelomycetous fungal species. We present a case in a renal transplant patient with chronic skin lesions of the lower extremities caused by P. cyclothyrioides. Treatment with posaconazole led to complete resolution of the lesions. P. cyclothyrioides should be considered an opportunistic human pathogen in immunocompromised patients.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antifungal Agents / administration & dosage
  • Ascomycota / classification
  • Ascomycota / genetics
  • Ascomycota / isolation & purification*
  • DNA, Fungal / chemistry
  • DNA, Fungal / genetics
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host
  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Lower Extremity / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phaeohyphomycosis / diagnosis*
  • Phaeohyphomycosis / drug therapy
  • Phaeohyphomycosis / microbiology
  • Phaeohyphomycosis / pathology*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Transplantation
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Triazoles / administration & dosage

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • DNA, Fungal
  • Triazoles
  • posaconazole

Associated data

  • GENBANK/JQ681303
  • GENBANK/JQ681304