One rare case of ankle abscess caused by Cladosporium tenuissimum
ZHENG Wen-ai
XU He-ping
YANG Xian-xu
Abstract：One rare case of ankle abscess caused by Cladosporium tenuissimum was reported.A 68-year-old peasant woman developed swollen,abscess and ulcer at his right ankle after leech bite one year ago.Histopathological examination revealed brown chlamydospores in tissue and fungal culture showed olive filamentous fungi growth which was identified as Cladosporium tenuissimum by morphology and ITS sequencing.This patient was diagnosed as chromablastomycosis and was prescribed itraconazole 0.2 g bid.The follow-up of four weeks showed obvious improvement.
Keywords：ankle abscessCladosporium tenuissimumchromablastomycosis
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 365-367 )