Madurella
a plate culture growing "Madurella grisea" (Georgia isolate)
Madurella grisea on agar plate
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Phylum:
Ascomycota
Class:
Sordariomycetes
Order:
Sordariales
Family:
Incertae sedis
Genus:
Madurella

Madurella is a fungal genus of uncertain position in the Sordariales, and sometimes classified as Mitosporic Ascomycota.

It includes the following species:

  • Madurella algiris C. W. Dodge, 1935
  • Madurella americana Gammel, 1927
  • Madurella bouffardii Vuill, 1931
  • Madurella brumptii Cif. & Redaelli, 1941
  • Madurella clapieri Cif. & Redaelli, 1941
  • Madurella grisea Abd. Ahmed et al., 2014
  • Madurella fahalii de Hoog et al., 2012
  • Madurella ikedae Gemmel, 1927
  • Madurella lackawanna Hanan, 1938
  • Madurella langeronii Cif. & Redaelli, 1941
  • Madurella mansonii Vuill, 1931
  • Madurella mycetomatis Brumpt, 1905
  • Madurella oswaldoi Horta, 1919
  • Madurella ramiroi Pirajá, 1918
  • Madurella reynieri Vuill, 1931
  • Madurella tropicana de Hoog et al., 2012

Madurella mycetomatis is a main cause of eumycetoma,[1] an infection of human extremities and rarely the nervous system, in arid regions of east Africa and Asia. The origin is soil and its dark agar colonies are often sterile, although sclerotia are often produced, and short chains of 1-celled conidia sometimes occur.[2] A molecular assay distinguishes the four species based on rolling circle amplification of the internal transcribed spacer of the ribosomal DNA (ITS).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Madurella at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
  2. ↑ Hoog, GS de; Guarro, J; Gene, J; Figueras, MJ (2000). Atlas of clinical fungi. Baarn, the Netherlands: Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures.
  3. ↑ Ahmed, SA; Ende, BH van den; Fahal, AH; Sande, WW van de; Hoog, GS de (2014). "Rapid identification of black grain eumycetoma causative agents using rolling circle amplification". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 8 (12): e3368. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003368. PMC 4256478. PMID 25474355.


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