Volume 30, Number 6—June 2024
Dispatch
Molecular Identification of Fonsecaea monophora, Novel Agent of Fungal Brain Abscess
Sudesh Gourav, Gagandeep Singh, Mragnayani Pandey, Bhaskar Rana, Sonakshi Gupta, Himanshu Mishra, and Immaculata Xess
Table
Phylogenetically informative polymorphic sites in the ITS region of Fonsecaea spp., showing 12 of 13 bases from the isolate cultured from the brain biopsy of a 3-year-old patient were identical with F. monophora fungus*
| Species | ITS 1 (206) |
5.8s (169) |
ITS 2 (152) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 41 | 47 | 79 | 99 | 100 | 109 | 113 | 46 | 47 | 119 | 121 | 144 | |||
| F. pedrosoi | C | C | A | T | C | T | T | A | C | G | T | T | T | ||
| F. monophora | T/–† | T | T | G | T | C | C | G | T | A | A | C | C | ||
| Study isolate | T | T | T | G | T | C | C | G | C | A | A | C | C | ||
*ITS, internal transcribed spacer. †Presence of thymine or deletion in position 15 of ITS 1 of F. monophora.
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