Abstract

Medical mycology has gone through five distinct eras: 1) Fungi causing dermatophytoses, 2) Discovery of rare and fatal systemic mycoses, 3) Realization that fungi cause common and subclinical diseases, 4) AIDS and the era of the compromised host, 5) Broad-spectrum antifungals with few side effects. Chromoblastomycosis caused by a group of dematiaceous fungi is a common disease in china. To date almost 500 cases have been repoted. This article aims to introduce epidemiology, microbiology, clinical features, laboratory diagnosis and treatment of chromoblastomycosis in china.

Keywords

Chromoblastomycosis China

KJMM 2011 December;16(4):169-171(3). Epub 2016 February 17
Copyright © 2011 by Korean Journal of Medical Mycology

Language

English

Author

Chunyang Li; Department of Dermatology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji'nan 250012, China

Corresponding

Chunyang Li, Department of Dermatology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji'nan 250012, China. Tel: +86-531-8216-9161, Fax: +86-531-86926068, e-mail: lichunyang@medmail.com.cn

Publication history

Received 3 September 2011;

Acknowledgements

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Chunyang Li

Department of Dermatology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji'nan 250012, China

Since epub date 2016 February 17