chromomycosis
Findings
No curated finding names chromomycosis yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Chromomycosis is a chronic cutaneous and subcutaneous fungal infection, found mainly in subtropical and tropical areas (in soil and plant debris and transmitted by traumatic inoculation), and characterized clinically by slow growing, verrucous nodules, squamous plaques, or chronic limited lesions which are most commonly found on the lower limbs and which are characterized histologically by the presence of muriform cells. It is caused by dematiaceous fungi, with the main etiological agents being Fonsecaea pedrosoi, Phialophora verrucosa and Cladophialophora carrionii. Rarely, it can be caused by Rhinocladiella aquaspersa.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0015908), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
33 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Abnormality of the lower limbHPOHP:0002814
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- PruritusHPOHP:0000989
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Abnormal foot morphologyHPOHP:0001760
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Annular cutaneous lesionHPOHP:0025528
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- EdemaHPOHP:0000969
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Erythematous maculeHPOHP:0025475
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Erythematous plaque
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- Serpiginous cutaneous lesionHPOHP:0025527
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Subcutaneous noduleHPOHP:0001482
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Verrucous papuleHPOHP:0012500
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Abnormality of the upper limbHPOHP:0002817
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
- Atypical scarring of skinHPOHP:0000987
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
- Hypopigmented skin patchesHPOHP:0001053
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: chromomycosis
- Also called
- chromoblastomycosis