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Correspondence
May 2009

Onychomycosis Caused by Nigrospora sphaerica in an Immunocompetent Man

Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(5):611-612. doi:10.1001/archdermatol.2009.80

Nigrospora is rarely an opportunistic pathogen in humans. To our knowledge, there have been 4 reports on Nigrospora-induced human eye and skin infections in the literature.1-3 However, none of these cases included definite clinicopathologic evidence or species identification. Herein, we report the first case to our knowledge of Nigrospora sphaerica–induced onychomycosis in humans.

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