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Fungi causing subcutaneous mycoses
- Infections involving the dermis, subcutaneous tissues, muscle, fascia, and bone
- Usually result from puncture wounds and often form disfiguring subcutaneous abscesses.
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| Sporothrix schenckii | Sporotrichosis (granulomatous ulcer at the puncture site, affecting the draining lymphatics) |
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Madurella grisea
Madurella mycetomatis | Mycetoma “Madura foot” (appears like localized abscess which discharges pus with colored grains — black, white, red, yellow — through sinuses) |
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Cladosporium carionii
Phialophora verrucosa | Chromomycosis “Chromoblastomycosis” (warty nodules that spread along lymphatics) |
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