Abstract

The dematiaceous fungi, characterized by having melanin in their cell walls, have become significant due to an increasing cause of human skin disease in Korea. The disease caused by dematiaceous fungi contain pityriasis (tinea) nigra, onychomycosis (in part), black piedra, keratomycosis (in part), chromoblastomycosis, phaeohyphomycosis, and eumycotic mycetoma (in part). Chromoblastomycosis is subcutaneous mycotic disease that contain sclerotic cells and histologically show pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia with microabscess, and phaeohyphomycosis is a group of mycotic infections that contain dematiaceous yeast-like cells, pseudohypae-like elements, hyphae or combination of these form in tissue.

Keywords

Chromoblastomycosis Phaeohyphomycosis Dematiaceous fungi

KJMM 2005 September;10(3):77-82(6). Epub 2016 February 20
Copyright © 2005 by Korean Journal of Medical Mycology

Language

Korean/English

Author

Moo Kyu Suh; Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Dongguk University, Gyeongju, Korea
Yong Hwan Lee; Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Dongguk University, Gyeongju, Korea

Corresponding

Moo Kyu Suh, Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Dongguk University, Gyeongju, Korea. Tel: (054) 770-8269, Fax: (054) 773-1581, e-mail: mksuhmd@hanmail.net

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Acknowledgements

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Moo Kyu Suh

Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Dongguk University, Gyeongju, Korea

Yong Hwan Lee

Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Dongguk University, Gyeongju, Korea

Since epub date 2016 February 20