Onychomycosis by Trichosporon Inkin: A Rare Clinical Entity
Published: January 1, 2018 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2018/31684.11139
Charu Jain, Ravinder Kaur, Deepti Rawat, Suraiya K Ansari
1. Senior Resident, Department of Microbiology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, Delhi, India.
2. Director Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, Delhi, India.
3. Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, Delhi, India.
4. Senior Resident, Department of Microbiology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, Delhi, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Ravinder Kaur,
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Trichosporon species are basidiomycetous yeasts that are widely distributed in the nature and regularly found on normal skin. The cylinder-shaped arthroconidia forming yeast has undergone a major taxonomic reclassification with Trichosporon inkin associated with white piedra of hair shafts. Here in we report a rare case of onychomycosis in an otherwise healthy adult.
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