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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 , biology , internal transcribed spacer , dna sequencing , phylogenetic tree , identification (biology) , taxonomy (biology) , computational biology , genetics , evolutionary biology , gene , zoology , microbiology and biotechnology , ecology , antifungal
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.