Perspectives on misidentification of  Trichophyton interdigitale / Trichophyton mentagrophytes  using internal transcribed spacer region sequencing: Urgent need to update the sequence database | Zendy

Chowdhary Anuradha | Zendy; Singh Ashutosh | Zendy; Singh Pradeep K. | Zendy; Khurana Ananta | Zendy; Meis Jacques F. | Zendy

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Perspectives on misidentification of Trichophyton interdigitale / Trichophyton mentagrophytes using internal transcribed spacer region sequencing: Urgent need to update the sequence database

Author(s) -

Chowdhary Anuradha,

Singh Ashutosh,

Singh Pradeep K.,

Khurana Ananta,

Meis Jacques F.

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

mycoses

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.13

H-Index - 69

eISSN - 1439-0507

pISSN - 0933-7407

DOI - 10.1111/myc.12865

Subject(s) - trichophyton , internal transcribed spacer , biology , database , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , computer science , gene , antifungal , ribosomal rna

Summary The taxonomy of the dermatophytes has been revisited using a novel multilocus phylogenetic approach, and several neotypes and reference strains have been assigned for Trichophyton species. Single gene sequencing, that is the ITS region, for identification of highly related species T. mentagrophytes/T. interdigitale , warrant reassessment. The sequence database (Westerdijk and NCBI) needs to be updated as several incorrect/obsolete entries of reference and neotype strains of T. interdigitale / T. mentagrophytes hampers correct identification of this complex.

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