Pavlína Lysková, Radim Dobiáš, Adéla Čmoková, Miroslav Kolařík, Petr Hamal, Kateřina Šmatláková, Jan Hušek, Karel Mencl, Nad'a Mallátová, Zora Poláčková, Anežka Krnáčová, Kristýna Palkovičová, Daniela Jablonská, Jitka Macháčová, Zdeněk Drlík, Denisa Bázsóová, Pavla Jaworská, Lucie Svobodová, Vit Hubka
Trichophyton quinckeanum, a zoophilic dermatophyte mostly known as the causative agent of rodent favus, is relatively rarely reported to cause human infections. Indeed, no infections were detected in Czechia between 2012 and 2015 despite routine verification of species identification by ITS rDNA sequencing. By contrast, 25 human and 11 animal cases of infection were documented from December 2016 to December 2020 and the rates tended to grow every following year. Interestingly, most of the cases were reported in the Olomouc region, suggesting a local outbreak...
August 25, 2021: Journal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland)