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Phialemonium obovatum

 * Described by Walter Gams and Michael R. Mcginnis at 1983
 * Moist but not slimy
 * smooth or slightly floccose or with superficial radiating hyphal strands
 * colonies initial White, turning greenish
 * Odor not pronounced
 * Conidia obovate, hyaline, smooth-walled, guttulate, with an apiculate and minutely truncated base, one celled
 * Chlamydospores present in old cultures, oval to cylindrical,thin-walled, hyaline
 * discrete phialides, lacked a collarette and periclinal wall thickenings
 * Temperature mimimum for growth 15 C, optimum 24- 33 C,maximum 40 C
 * Opportunistic fungal pathogen
 * pathogenicity and ability to invade living tissue
 * dematiaceous fungi
 * cause Phaeohyphomycosis peritonitis
 * widely distributed in the environment air, soil, industrial water, and sewage
 * invasive infections, affecting both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients
 * frequent infection: peritonitis,endocarditis,osteomyelitis, and cutaneous infections of wounds following burns
 * cause keratitis in immunecompromised hosts
 * resistant to AMB
 * genetically very distant from P. curvatum
 * genetically closely related to C. foveolata of the family Cephalothecaceae