Kerion and Tinea Corporis Caused by Rabbit-Derived Trichophyton interdigitale in Three Siblings and One Consulting Doctor Using β-Tubulin Gene to Identify the Pathogen

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Yan-Ping Yang ; Ping Sheng ; Zhong Liu ; Wen Li ; Jie-Di Wang ; Wen-Ming Huang…
• 刊名：Mycopathologia
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：181
• 期：7-8
• 页码：539-546
• 全文大小：2,300 KB
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Microbiology
  Medical Microbiology
  Plant Sciences
  Microbial Ecology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0832
• 卷排序：181

文摘

Trichophyton interdigitale is generally deemed as an anamorph of Arthroderma vanbreuseghemii based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequencing, but recently their anamorph/teleomorph connection should be cautioned based on β-tubulin phylogeny. We report three siblings and one consulting doctor who developed kerion and tinea corporis after contact with domestic rabbits. Seven same strains were isolated from four patients and three regions of a sick rabbit. The ITS and D1/D2 sequences of our isolate were 99 % homologous to A. Vanbreuseghemii, while β-tubulin sequence was 100 % identical to T. interdigitale. Our isolate was identified as T. interdigitale based on maximum likelihood analysis of β-tubulin. Random amplified polymorphic DNA revealed that the band patterns of five isolated strains and another rabbit-derived strain WCH023 were identical for OPF-03 and OPF-12. Skin lesions of all patients resolved completely for 2- to 6-week therapy of oral terbinafine and topical 1 % bifonazole or 1 % terbinafine cream. This study demonstrates that T. interdigitale of rabbit origin can cause various types of human dermatophytosis by mild scratch. Terbinafine may be the first choice for dermatophytosis caused by T. interdigitale.KeywordsKerionTinea corporisTrichophyton interdigitaleArthroderma vanbreuseghemiiRabbit