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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2004, p. 5315-5319, Vol. 42, No. 11
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5315-5319.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Phaeohyphomycotic Soft Tissue Infections Caused by the Coelomycetous Fungus Microsphaeropsis arundinis

Stella Pendle,1,{dagger} Kerry Weeks,1* Michael Priest,2 Anthony Gill,3 Bernard Hudson,1 George Kotsiou,1 and Robert Pritchard1

Department of Microbiology,1 Department of Anatomical Pathology, Pacific Laboratory Medicine Services (PaLMS), Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards,3 Orange Agricultural Institute, NSW Agriculture, Orange, Australia2

Received 2 February 2004/ Returned for modification 8 March 2004/ Accepted 18 May 2004

Microsphaeropsis arundinis is an anamorphic fungal plant inhabitant belonging to the form class Coelomycetes. We describe two cases of M. arundinis soft tissue infections in immunosuppressed patients. This organism has not previously been described as causing disease in humans. It was identified on the basis of its typical ostiolate pycnidial conidiomata, ampulliform conidiogenous cells, and small, smooth-walled, brown, cylindrical conidia.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Pacific Laboratory Medicine Services (PaLMS), Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards NSW 2065, Australia.

{dagger} Present address: Department of Microbiology, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2004, p. 5315-5319, Vol. 42, No. 11
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5315-5319.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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