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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2001, p. 3386-3389, Vol. 39, No. 9
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.8.3386-3389.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

First Report of Human Infection Due to the Fungus Triadelphia pulvinata

Saleh S. A. Al-Hedaithy*

The Medical Mycology Unit, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, College of Medicine and King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia

Received 27 October 2000/Returned for modification 29 March 2001/Accepted 14 May 2001

Triadelphia pulvinata, a soil hyphomycete, was found to be the cause of eczematoid, scaly, grey lesions on the skin of both eyelids of a 30-year-old Indian male living in Saudi Arabia. Repeated KOH preparations of the skin scrapings showed presence of sclerotic, branched, septate hyphae. When cultured, skin scrapings from the lesion grew the dematiaceous fungus T. pulvinata. Treatment with topical clotrimazole cured the infection, and no recurrence of the infection was noted in a 5-year follow-up.

* Mailing address: The Medical Mycology Unit, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, College of Medicine and King Khalid University Hospital, P.O. Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia. Phone: 9661-467-1010. Fax: 9661-467-2366. E-mail: hedaithy{at}ksu.edu.sa.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2001, p. 3386-3389, Vol. 39, No. 9
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.8.3386-3389.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.




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