A suggested pathogenic role for Trichosporon montevideense in a case of Onychomycosis in a Japanese monkey.
Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of fingernails or toenails caused by several species of fungi and yeasts. A Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, displayed severe onychomycosis in his 4 limbs. Diagnosis and etiological agent identification were performed by conventional and DNA-mediated methods. The accumulated findings of this case revealed Trichosporon montevideense, which has long been considered to be a nonpathogenic yeast. Here, we present the first report of an involvement of T. montevideense in an onychomycosis case.
Alshahni
Mohamed Mahdi
MM
Teikyo University Institute of Medical Mycology, 359 Otsuka, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0395, Japan.
Makimura
Koichi
K
Satoh
Kazuo
K
Ishihara
Yumiko
Y
Takatori
Kosuke
K
Kimura
Tohru
T
Sawada
Takuo
T
D000818:Animals; D008251:Macaca; D008297:Male; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014009:Onychomycosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014250:Trichosporon / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity*