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SUBMITTER: Yoon YA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3486940 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yoon Young Ahn YA Park Kyung Sun KS Lee Jang Ho JH Sung Ki-Sun KS Ki Chang-Seok CS Lee Nam Yong NY
Annals of laboratory medicine 20121017 6
We report a case of subcutaneous infection in a 55-yr-old Korean diabetic patient who presented with a cystic mass of the ankle. Black fungal colonies were observed after culturing on blood and Sabouraud dextrose agar. On microscopic observation, septated ellipsoidal or cylindrical conidia accumulating on an annellide were visualized after staining with lactophenol cotton blue. The organism was identified as Exophiala salmonis by sequencing of the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region ...[more]