title: Phoma (Peyronellaea) as zoopathogen.
abstract: Two case reports add to the rare recorded instances of infection of man and other animals by Phoma or Phoma-like molds. Phoma cava was consistently cultured from aural dermatitis of a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), and tissue sections of the ear revealed fragments of apparent pycnidial walls, as well as many septate hyphae. In the second instance, numerous Phoma-like pycnidia occurred in and upon the hairs of a young child, in a lesion initiated by Trichophyton infection.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003670:Deer; D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D006197:Hair / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D003904:Mitosporic Fungi / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology