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Scytalidium hyalinum infection of skin and nails
Author(s) -
PEIRIS SANDRA,
MOORE MARY K.,
MARTEN R.H.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1979.tb05584.x
Subject(s) - trichophyton , african descent , west indies , nail (fastener) , dermatology , dermatophyte , medicine , fungus , biology , antifungal , ethnology , materials science , botany , sociology , anthropology , metallurgy , history
SUMMARY Five cases of skin and nail infection associated with Seytalidium hyalinum are described. The lesions were confined to the hands, feet and toenails. All the patients were from the West Indies and were of Negroid descent. Scytalidium hyalinum was the only fungus isolated on repeated culture from three patients, while the remaining two patients had mixed infections, one with Trichophyton mentagrophytes var. interdigitale and the other with Hendersonula toruloidea .