Figure 1.
Microscopic features of dematiaceous fungi.
(A-D) Macroconidia of Curvularia, Bipolaris, Exserohilum and Alternaria (E) Arthroconidia of Neosyctalidium (F) Globose chain conidia and ramoconidia of Cladosporium (G) conidia of Daldinia (H) Dark conidia of Nigrospora (I) Chaetomium perithecium covered with long setae and dark ascospores (J) Spine-like conidiophore and hyaline conidia of Exophiala (K) Ochroconis two-celled clavate conidia with cylindrical conidiophore. Bars 20 µm.
Figure 2.
Classifications of fungal isolates.
Bayesian tree generated with general time reversible (GTR) model space based on unique ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 gene sequences with two strains of Saccharomyces boulardii as out-group. Isolate sequence duplicates are listed in parentheses next to their representative. Clinical isolates from UMMC used in this study are printed in bold. Bayesian posterior probability values for every clustering are printed on each node.
Table 1.
In vitro susceptibility of dematiaceous fungal isolates to antifungal agents, grouped according to MICa categories.
Table 2.
Genera and MICa profiles of potential phaeohyphomycosis aetiological agents compiled by Chowdhary et al. [43] and isolates identified in this study.