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Hongkongmyces pedis

Hongkongmyces pedis C.C.C. Tsang, J.F.W. Chan, Trend. -Sm., A.H.Y. Ngan, I.W.H. Ling, S.K.P. Lau & P.C.Y. Woo, Medical Mycol. 52(7): 740 (2014).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 805516; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12631, Fig. 1

Description: see Tsang et al. (2014).

Material considered: see Tsang et al. (2014).

 

Fig. 1  Hongkongmyces pedis (HKU35, holotype; redrawn from Tsang et al. 2014). a Appearance of colony in culture. b Round, spore-like bodies (arrows) observed along the dark, pigmented hyphae grown on PDA.

Importance and distribution

Hongkongmyces comprises four species. Hongkongmyces aquaticus was found on decaying wood, submerged in freshwater in Asia (Thailand), H. pedis was isolated from foot of sapiens human in Asia (Hong Kong), H. snookiorum from submerged detritus from a fresh water fern in The United States and H. thailandicus from decaying wood in Asia (Thailand).

 

Reference

Tsang CC, Chan JF, Trendell-Smith NJ, Ngan AH et al. 2014 – Subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis in a patient with IgG4-related sclerosing disease caused by a novel ascomycete, Hongkongmyces pedis gen. et sp. nov.: first report of human infection associated with the family Lindgomycetaceae. Medical Mycology 52, 736–747.

 

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