Case of cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by Phaeoacremonium sp. in a renal transplant recipient. Issue 3 (6th December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sakata, Yuichi; Kitayama, Asuka; Yoshimura, Rieko; Anzawa, Kazushi; Fujii, Toshiki; Fujimoto, Keiji; Yokoyama, Hitoshi; Mochizuki, Takashi
• Is Part Of: Journal of dermatology. Volume 42:Issue 3(2015)
• Page Start: 263
• Page End: 266
• Publication Date: 2014-12-06
• Subjects: Dermatology -- Periodicals; Dermatology -- Japan -- Periodicals; Skin -- Diseases -- Periodicals; 616.5005
• DOI: 10.1111/1346-8138.12719
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0385-2407

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="jde12719-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>We describe a case of cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis in a 61‐year‐old man receiving re‐dialysis treatment for renal failure of a transplanted kidney. He was immunocompromised with steroid and cyclosporin A at onset of an asymptomatic abscess on his right forearm. The abscess arose at the site of a skin injury approximately 1 year prior. Grayish molds isolated from the lesion were morphologically compatible with <italic>Phaeoacremonium</italic> sp. but nucleotide sequence data of internal transcribed spacer regions of ribosomal RNA gene, actin and β‐tubulin genes were unlike those of any described species. He was successfully treated with a total of 3 weeks of liposomal amphotericin B, but died of pneumonia approximately 3 months after cure of phaeohyphomycosis.</p> </abstract>