A case report of a mixed Chaetomium globosum/Trichophyton mentagrophytes onychomycosis.

Med Mycol Case Rep

Department of Medical Biology , Centre de Santé et de Services Sociaux (CSSS) de l'Énergie, Shawinigan, G9P 5K1, Que., Canada.

Published: December 2013

Recently, an increasing prevalence of nondermatophyte mold onychomycosis was observed, in which Chaetomium globosum was rarely involved as primary pathogenic agent. Besides this, reports of mixed infection associating a dermatophyte and a nondermatophyte mold have become more frequent. Here, we present a clinical case of a mixed onychomycosis infection of a toenail caused by Chaetomium globosum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes. To our knowledge, this specific association is reported for the first time in Canada.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3854637PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.09.001DOI Listing

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