TABLE 1.
Clinical data and Trichosporon species recovered from clinical specimens
| Case no. | Clinical specimen | Clinical finding(s)a | Patient age/sexb | Patient origin | Identification of isolate by the Vitek II yeast ID/API ID 32 C system | Closest hit (BLAST)c | No. of identical nucleotides/total nucleotides based on the rDNA sequence
|
Identification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LSU | ITS | ||||||||
| 1 | Urine | Pyuria, RBC | 26/M | India | T. asahii | T. asahii | 556/556 | 439/440 | T. asahii |
| 2 | Urine | Pyuria | 63/M | Qatar | T. asahii | T. asahii | 555/555 | 458/459 | T. asahii |
| 3 | Urine | Pyuria | 32/M | Egypt | Trichosporon species | T. faecale | 576/577 | 490/490 | T. faecale |
| 4 | Urine | Pyuria, | 23/F | Egypt | T. asahii | T. asahii | 571/571 | 550/550 | T. asahii |
| 5 | Urine | Pyuria | 68/M | Palestine | T. asahii | T. asahii | 555/555 | 469/471 | T. asahii |
| 6 | Urine | Pyuria | 77/F | Qatar | T. asahii | T. asahii | 554/554 | 469/471 | T. asahii |
| 7 | Urine | Pyuria | 41/M | Nepal | T. asahii | T. asahii | 576/577 | 558/558 | T. asahii |
| 8 | Toenail | Distolateral onychomycosis, whitish discoloration | 72/M | United States | T. asahii | T. asahii | 557/557 | 498/499 | T. asahii |
| 9 | Toenail | Onychomycosis | 30/M | Egypt | Trichosporon species | T. asahii | 556/556 | 467/469 | T. asahii |
| 10 | Toenail | Onychomycosis | 50/M | Sudan | T. inkin | T. asahii | 533/533 | 490/490 | T. asahii |
| 11 | Toenail | Onychomycosis | 25/M | Pakistan | Trichosporon species | T. asahii | 515/515 | 335/336 | T. asahii |
| 12 | Fingernail | Onychomycosis, whitish-yellowish, (subungual hyperkeratosis) | 22/M | Nepal | T. asahii | T. asahii | 567/567 | 550/550 | T. asahii |
| 13 | Nail | Onychomycosis | 25/M | Philippines | T. asahii | T. asahii | 587/588 | 565/565 | T. asahii |
| 14 | Toenail | Onychomycosis | 70/F | Qatar | Trichosporon species | T. coremiiforme/T. asahii | 560/561 | 556/566 | T. dohaense |
| 15 | Ear discharge | Pus discharge, ear pain | 15/M | Qatar | T. asahii | T. asahii | 557/557 | 469/470 | T. asahii |
| 16 | Ear discharge | Pus discharge, ear pain | 26/F | India | Trichosporon species | T. asahii | 556/556 | 467/469 | T. asahii |
| 17 | Catheter | Catheter site infection | 41/M | Bangladesh | Trichosporon species | T. coremiiforme/T. asahii | 545/546 | 651/662 | T. dohaense |
| 18 | Skin/intertrigo | Tinea pedis of the diabetic foot | 31/M | Qatar | T. asahii | T. japonicum | 571/571 | 466/466 | T. japonicum |
| 19 | Scalp hair | White piedra | 28/F | Qatar | Trichosporon species | T. inkin | 600/600 | 498/502 | T. inkin |
| 20 | Skin scraping | Tinea pedis | 34/M | India | Trichosporon species | T. coremiiforme/T. asahii | 560/561 | 549/560 | T. dohaense |
| 21 | Tissue | Leg cellulitis | 18/M | Pakistan | Trichosporon species | T. asahii | 581/582 | 541/541 | T. asahii |
| 22 | Skin | Tinea pedis | 33/M | Qatar | Trichosporon species | T. japonicum | 621/621 | 541/541 | T. japonicum |
| 23 | Bone | Osteomyelitis | 65/M | India | Trichosporon species | T. asahii | 585/586 | 557/559 | T. asahii |
| 24 | Blood | Fungemia | 6/F | Qatar | Trichosporon species | T. faecale | 620/621 | 522/522 | T. faecale |
| 25 | Swab | Urethral discharge | 28/M | Kenya | Trichosporon species | T. inkin | 603/603 | 539/539 | T. inkin |
| 26 | Swab | Balanitis | 39/M | India | T. asahii | T. inkin | 526/526 | 508/512 | T. cf inkin |
| 27 | Bronchial lavage | Trauma, cough | 52/M | Unknown | T. asahii | T. asahii | 424/424 | 498/498 | T. asahii |
a
RBC, red blood cells.
b
M, male; F, female.
c
Valid for both the LSU and the ITS, except for cases 14, 17, and 20, where the first name is the hit for the LSU and the second name is the hit for the ITS.