Phoma species

A rapidly-growing fungus that produces a grayish-brown colony with a black reverse, within five days, when incubated at 25oC (77oF). It has worldwide distribution and has been isolated from soil, sandy soil, plants, and wood. Rarely, it can be an opportunistic human pathogen causing infections of the hands, feet, ear and nose (phaeohypomycosis), allergenic reactions and a hypersensitivity pneumonitis known as shower curtain disease.

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