Hepatic phaeohyphomycosis due to a novel dematiaceous fungus, Pleurostoma hongkongense sp. nov., and importance of antifungal susceptibility testing.

Pleurostoma species are wood-inhabiting fungi and emerging opportunistic pathogens that cause phaeohyphomycosis. In this study, we isolated a dematiaceous fungus, HKU44T, from the subhepatic absces...