A case of onychomycosis caused by Aspergillus candidus

Bahram Ahmadi; Seyed Jamal Hashemi; Farideh Zaini; Mohammad Reza Shidfar; Maryam Moazeni; Bita Mousavi; Fatemeh Noorbakhsh; Mohsen Gheramishoar; Leila Hossein Pour; Sassan Rezaie

doi:10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.06.003

A case of onychomycosis caused by Aspergillus candidus

Med Mycol Case Rep. 2012 Jul 3;1(1):45-8. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.06.003. eCollection 2012.

Affiliations

¹ Division of Molecular Biology, Department of Medical Mycology & Parasitology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Medical Mycology, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
³ Department of Biology, Islamic Azad University, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Varamin, Iran.
⁴ Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Based on epidemiological studies, Aspergillus candidus has been demonstrated as an emerging fungal agent of toenail onychomycosis. Here we report a case of a toenail infection caused by A. candidus in a healthy 60-year-old woman. Based on macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of the culture as well as nucleotide sequencing of 28S region, the causative agent was identified as A. candidus.

Keywords: Aspergillus candidus; DNA sequencing; Onychomycosis.