2010
DOI: 10.3109/13693780903008813
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Successful treatment of chromoblastomycosis of 36 years duration caused byFonsecaea monophora

Abstract: We report a case of chromoblastomycosis in a 67-year-old female farmer, which involved a large (20 x 30 cm) cicatricial erythematous plaque on the inner side of her right thigh. The lesion was initially a small nodule which gradually extended over 36 years. Direct microscopic examination revealed a granulomatous lesion with muriform cells surrounded by giant cells. The mould recovered in cultures was dark olivaceous and identified as Fonsecaea monophora by ribosomal internal transcribe spacer (ITS) sequence da… Show more

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“…Two other strains from human brain infections in Brazil and in Africa had unique profiles that could not be unambiguously linked to any other isolate. Another African strain, from a patient with chromoblastomycosis who lived in Spain and had acquired the infection 36 years earlier in Guinea ( 25 ), also had a unique profile. Population 4 of F. monophora comprised 16 strains from Guangdong in southern China, and 1 came from Shandong, ≈1,850 km distant.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Two other strains from human brain infections in Brazil and in Africa had unique profiles that could not be unambiguously linked to any other isolate. Another African strain, from a patient with chromoblastomycosis who lived in Spain and had acquired the infection 36 years earlier in Guinea ( 25 ), also had a unique profile. Population 4 of F. monophora comprised 16 strains from Guangdong in southern China, and 1 came from Shandong, ≈1,850 km distant.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…F. monophora and F. nubica were distributed worldwide but were geographically diverse in that population 4 of F. monophora was nearly confined to China, with highly similar profiles (Figure A1). One strain of this population 4, CBS 117238, originated from a brain infection in a human in the United Kingdom; whether this patient had emigrated from China could not be determined from the original publication ( 25 ). F. monophora population 3 was found mainly in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in Brazil.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The main agents of CBM are limited to three clusters. A Fonsecaea cluster, nested in the "bantiana clade" (34,35), contains prevalent agents of CBM, Fonsecaea pedrosoi and F. monophora (36,37) (Fig. 1).…”
Section: Molecular Phylogenymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Importantly, most infections are chronic and, in humans, have been observed to reside in tissues for decades (174). The chronic nature of infections seems to be due to inadequate innate recognition and subsequent failure to mount protective inflammatory responses (91).…”
Section: Recommended Diagnostics and Treatment Approachesmentioning
confidence: 99%