Emergence of Candida haemulonii and closely related species at five Korean hospitals has been recently described. We examined biofilm formation by these isolates and assessed their genotypic relatedness by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). This study is the first to show that all bloodstream isolates of Candida pseudohaemulonii can form significant biofilms in glucose-containing medium. PFGE of NotI-digested genomic DNA revealed that C. pseudohaemulonii isolates recovered from seven patients in two hospitals shared five patterns, and that 15 isolates of a proposed new species (Candida auris) obtained from patients at three hospitals shared seven patterns, suggesting that some of these isolates may be related to clonal transmission.

Scopulariopsis brevicaulis is a ubiquitous soil saprophyte that commonly causes onychomycosis, accounting for 1-10% of such infections. Rarely, it may be responsible for cutaneous lesions or more severe infections, especially after traumatic or surgical injuries. We report of a 54-year-old female patient who developed facial cellulitis caused by S. brevicaulis, which occurred one year after the patient underwent cosmetic surgery of the face. The patient suffered from febrile sense, pain and a growing mass lesion on her left cheek, which were diagnosed as facial cellulitis associated with foreign material that had been implanted at the time of cosmetic surgery. Three pus cultures from the mass lesion which performed at a week interval yielded the same S. brevicaulis. Surgical removal and drainage by using liposuction procedure resulted in a favorable outcome. To our knowledge this is the first report of S. brevicaulis infection associated with cosmetic surgery in Korea.