Isolation of Exophiala (Wangiella) dermatitidis in a case of otitis externa

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 939-940

  Kerkmann, M L ^a,b   Piontek, K ^a,b   Mitze, H ^a,b   Haase, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CASTELLANI SOLUTION; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; NYSTATIN; OFLOXACIN; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EXOPHIALA; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033496783     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520467     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Bojrab DI, Bruderly T, Abdulrazzak Y. Otitis externa. Otolaryngol Clin North Am 1996;29:761-82.
2. de Hoog GS, Guarro J. Atlas of clinical fungi. Baarn, the Netherlands: Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 1995.
3. Uijthof JMJ, van Belkum A, de Hoog GS, Haase G. Exophiala dermatitidis and Sarcinomyces phaeomuriformis: ITS1-sequencing and nutritional physiology. Med Mycol 1998;36:143-52.
4. Horre R, de Hoog GS, Primary cerebral infections by melanized fungi: a review. Studies in Mycology 1999;43:176-93.
5. Haase G, Skopnik H, Groten T, Kusenbach G, Posselt HG. Long-term fungal cultures from sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis. Mycoses 1991;34:373-6.
6. de Hoog GS. Significance of fungal evolution for the understanding of their pathogenicity, illustrated with agents of phaeohyphomycosis. Mycoses 1997;40(suppl 2):5-8.
7. Pritchard RC, Muir DB. Black fungi: a survey of dematiaceous hyphomycetes from clinical specimens identified over a five year period in a reference laboratory. Pathology 1987;19:281-4.
8. Haase G. Exophiala jeanselmei var. castellanii and Exophiala manxonii are synonyms [letter]. Clin Infect Dis 1996;23:852-3.
9. Amorosa L, Modugno GC, Pirodda A. Malignant external otitis: review and personal experience. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl (Stockh) 1996:521:3-16.
10. Phillips P, Bryce G, Shepherp J, Mintz D. Invasive external otitis caused by Aspergillus. Rev Infect Dis 1990;12:277 81.