Authors: Jascha L F Weisenborn Roland Kirschner Orlando Cáceres Meike Piepenbring
Publish Date: 2010/03/28
Volume: 170, Issue: 3, Pages: 203-208
Abstract
In a survey of mycotic human skin and nail lesions in Chiriquí Western Panama Talaromyces indigoticus was isolated in one case This ascomycete is characterised by formation of gymnothecia containing oval spinose and yellow ascospores which become blue in mounting fluids and by short monoverticillate or biverticillate penicilli It is here reported the first time for Panama and the American continent Because the strain was isolated from an onychomycosis together with a dermatophyte and other fungal strains the pathological impact of Talaromyces indigoticus is not evidentThe authors thank Manfred Ruppel for assistance with SEM Prof Dr med Helmut Schöfer Department of Venerology and Dermatology Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Germany and Lic Manuel Dixon Policlínica Gustavo A Ross David Panama for cooperation and the “Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Johann Wolfgang GoetheUniversität” for financial support
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