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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 1999, p. 2927-2930, Vol. 37, No. 9
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Onychomycosis Caused by Blastoschizomyces capitatus

Domenico D'Antonio,1,* Ferdinando Romano,2 Antonio Iacone,1 Beatrice Violante,1 Paolo Fazii,3 Eugenio Pontieri,4 Tommaso Staniscia,2 Claudia Caracciolo,4 Stefano Bianchini,4 Roberta Sferra,5 Antonella Vetuschi,5 Eugenio Gaudio,5 and Giuseppe Carruba4

Servizio di Microbiologia Clinica del Dipartimento di Ematologia ed Oncologia, Ospedale "Santo Spirito", Pescara e Cattedra di Ematologia,1 Cattedra di Igiene, Istituto di Patologia Umana e Medicina Sociale, Università "G. D'Annunzio", Chieti,2 Laboratorio di Analisi Cliniche, Ospedale "Santo Spirito", Pescara,3 and Cattedra di Virologia e Micologia Medicia,4 e Cattedra di Anatomia Umana e Clinica,5 Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, l'Aquila, Italy

Received 17 August 1998/Returned for modification 5 November 1998/Accepted 25 May 1999

Blastoschizomyces capitatus was cultured from the nail of a healthy patient with onychomycosis. The identity of the isolate was initially established by standard methods and ultrastructural analysis and was verified by molecular probing. Strains ATCC 200929, ATCC 62963, and ATCC 62964 served as reference strains for these analyses. To our knowledge, this is the first case of nail infection secondary to paronychia caused by this organism reported in the English literature.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dipartimento di Ematologia ed Oncologia, Ospedale "Santo Spirito" di Pescara, Via Fonte Romana 8, 65100 Pescara, Italy. Phone: 00139-85-4252687. Fax: 00139-85-4252607. E-mail: aniacone{at}tin.it.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 1999, p. 2927-2930, Vol. 37, No. 9
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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