Pityriasis versicolor circinata: isolation of Malassezia sympodialis - Case report.
The authors report a case of pityriasis versicolor circinata whose isolated etiologic agent was Malassezia sympodialis in a 34-year-old woman. The isolation and identification of Malassezia sympodialis were accomplished with modified Dixon's agar, and the molecular method used to confirm the species was polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (PCR-RFLP).
Framil
Valéria Maria de Souza
VM
Dermatology Clinic of Santa Casa de Sao Paulo, Brazil. souza.valeria@terra.com.br <souza.valeria@terra.com.br>
Melhem
Márcia S C
MS
Szeszs
Maria Walderez
MW
Corneta
Elaine Cristina
EC
Zaitz
Clarisse
C
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008290:Malassezia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014010:Tinea Versicolor / Q000382:microbiology*