A Case of Localized Skin Infection due to Purpureocillium lilacinum / 대한의진균학회지
Korean Journal of Medical Mycology
;
: 42-49, 2017.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-86664
ABSTRACT
Purpureocillium lilacinum, formerly Paecilomyces lilacinus, is a saprophytic fungus found in soil and rotting vegetation and rarely pathogenic to humans. Only 4 cases of cutaneous infection caused by Purpureocillium lilacinum have been reported in the name of Paecilomyces lilacinus. Herein, we report a case of localized cutaneous infection due to Purpureocillium lilacinum. A healthy 81-year-old immunocompetent male presented with an erythematous scaly and pustular plaque on his left dorsal hand that had begun 3 months ago. Histopathologic examination showed suppurative granulomatous inflammation with hyphae and round spores in the dermis. Periodic acid-Schiff and methenamine silver stain revealed fungal spores. Fungus culture from the biopsy specimen revealed velvety pink to white colonies after 15 day-incubation period. The slide culture stained with lactophenol-cotton blue showed typical long hyphae and flask-shaped phialides with oval conidia in chains. The result of DNA sequencing from the colony was identical to that of Purpureocillium lilacinum.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Skin
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Soil
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Spores
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Spores, Fungal
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Biopsy
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Paecilomyces
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Dermis
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Hyphae
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Fungi
Limits:
Aged
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Aged80
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Medical Mycology
Year:
2017
Type:
Article
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