[fallenstar]

Phaeohyphomycosis

Description:

A mycotic infection of humans and lower animals caused by a number of dematiaceous (brown-pigmented) fungi where the tissue morphology of the causative organism is mycelial. This separates it from other clinical types of disease involving brown-pigmented fungi where the tissue morphology of the organism is a grain (mycotic mycetoma) or sclerotic body (chromoblastomycosis). The etiological agents include various dematiaceous hyphomycetes especially species of Exophiala, Phialophora, Wangiella, Bipolaris, Exserohilum, Cladophialophora , Phaeoannellomyces, Aureobasidium, Cladosporium, Curvularia and Alternaria. Ajello (1986) listed 71 species from 39 genera as causative agents of phaeohyphomycosis.

Clinical manifestations:

Clinical forms of phaeohyphomycosis range from localized superficial infections of the stratum corneum (tinea *****) to subcutaneous cysts (phaeomycotic cyst) to invasion of the brain. Ideally, individual disease states involving an invasive fungal infection by a dematiaceous hyphomycete should be designated by a specific description of the pathology and the causative fungal genus or species (where known); for example "pathology A" caused by "fungus X".

[Jere]

holy christ.... that would be awful...

[winvens]

Those poor folks.

[vagabond]

Gawdalmighty! Por people- does anyone survive this?

[kellyhound]

there's a fungus among us

[LadyCPlum]

Oh my God those poor souls.....

[GRiZ]

[smnewstead]

I always learn something new, here. Good post, good description. How awful. I wonder how it affects them, neurologically?