Preliminary data suggest that a treatment interval of 2 weeks is well tolerated by patients and resulted in greater lightening of the PWS in the majority, compared with a standard 6-week interval. It also has the potential to reduce the total duration of a course of treatment significantly.

Chromomycosis is a chronic, localized infection of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues caused by dematiaceous fungi of several genera. It has distinctive clinical, pathological and mycological characteristics. Exophiala spinifera is a well-established aetiological agent of phaeohyphomycosis, but there are only two reported cases worldwide of this dematiaceous fungus causing chromomycosis. We report the first known case in the UK of E. spinifera causing chromomycosis.