Medicopsis romeroi
Medicopsis romeroi (Borelli) Gruyter, Verkley & Crous., in Gruyter et al., Stud. Mycol. 75: 28 (2013).
= Pyrenochaeta romeroi Borelli, Dermatologia Venezolana 1: 326 (1959).
Index Fungorum number: IF 564792; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11616, Fig. 1
Description: see de Gruyter et al. (2013); Tanaka et al. (2017).
Material considered: see de Gruyter et al. (2013); Tanaka et al. (2017).
Fig. 1 Medicopsis romeroi (CBS 252.60, re-drawn from Fig. 6 Ahmed et al. 2014). a Colony. b Pycnidia. c Conidiophores. d Conidia. Scale bars: b = 10 μm, c, d = 2 μm.
Importance and distribution
Medicopsis comprises two species. Medicopsis chiangmaiensis is reported on dead wood in Asia (Thailand) while M. romeroi was isolated from nodular subcutaneous infection in a kidney transplant patient in South America (Venezuela) (Jeddi et al. 2020).
References
Ahmed SA, van de Sande WWJ, Stevens DA, Fahal A et al. 2014 – Revision of agents of blackgrain eumycetoma in the order Pleosporales. Persoonia 33, 141–154.
De Gruyter J, Woudenberg JHC, Aveskamp AA, Verkley GJM et al. 2013 – Redisposition of phoma-like anamorphs in Pleosporales. Studies in Mycology 75, 1–36.
Jeddi F, Paugam C, Hartuis S, Denis-Musquer M et al. 2020 – Medicopsis romeroi nodular subcutaneous infection in a kidney transplant recipient. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 95, 262–264. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.028.
Tanaka K, Hashimoto A, Matsumura M, Sato T. 2017 – Brevicollum, a new genus in Neohendersoniaceae, Pleosporales. Mycologia 109, 1–12.
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