Trichophyton interdigitale
{{Short description|Species of fungus}}
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| image = Trichophyton mentagrophytes (257 18) Cultured.jpg
| image_caption = Trichophyton mentagrophytes
| regnum = Fungi
| divisio = Ascomycota
| classis = Eurotiomycetes
| ordo = Onygenales
| familia = Arthrodermataceae
| genus = Trichophyton
| species = T. interdigitale
| binomial = Trichophyton interdigitale
| binomial_authority = Priestley (1917)
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File:Trichophyton mentagrophytes (257 19) From a microculture and an infected hair.jpg
Trichophyton interdigitale is a clonal line within sexual species T. mentagrophytes. It causes onychomycosis and tinea pedis in humans, and has never been isolated from animals. Trichophyton interdigitale isolates cannot be reliably discriminated from T.{{spaces|1|nb}}mentagrophytes by cultural techniques or MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and therefore ITS region DNA sequencing is recommended.
Critics
Trichophyton interdigitale is defined by its capability of transmission between human hosts and clonal way of reproduction. However, there is at least one another anthropophilic clonal line within T. mentagrophytes, phylogenetically unrelated to T. interdigitale.
References
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{{Cite journal |vauthors=de Hoog GS, Dukik K, Monod M, et al. |year=2017 |title=Toward a novel multilocus phylogenetic taxonomy for the dermatophytes |journal=Mycopathologia |volume=182 |issue=1-2 |pages=5–31 |doi=10.1007/s11046-016-0073-9 |pmid=27783317|doi-access=free |pmc=5283515 }}
{{cite journal |vauthors=Pchelin IM, Azarov DV, Churina MA, etal |title=Species boundaries in the Trichophyton mentagrophytes / T. interdigitale species complex |journal=Medical Mycology |volume=57 |issue=6 |pages=781–789 |year=2019 |pmid=30462248 |doi=10.1093/mmy/myy115}}
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Category:Fungi described in 1917
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