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Here, we mined our laboratory information management system for such infections in humans and domestic animals for the period 2016\u20132022, including (i) fungal isolates referred for identification and\/or susceptibility testing; (ii) infections diagnosed at our laboratory using panfungal PCR approaches on infected tissue; and (iii) organisms cultured in our laboratory from biopsies. In total, 106 cases were retrieved, involving 39 fungal species comprising 26 distinct genera. Subcutaneous infections with Alternaria species were the most frequent (36 cases), which possibly reflects the ubiquitous nature of this common plant pathogen. A substantial proportion of Alternaria spp. isolates exhibited reduced in vitro susceptibility to voriconazole. Notably, a significant number of subcutaneous infections were diagnosed in renal and other solid organ transplant recipients post transplantation, suggesting that humans may harbour \u201cinert\u201d subcutaneous fungal elements from historical minor injuries that present as clinical infections upon later immunosuppression. The current study underscores the diversity of fungi that can cause subcutaneous infections. While most organisms catalogued here were responsible for occasional infections, several genera (Alternaria, Exophiala, Phaeoacremonuim, Scedosporium) were more frequently recovered in our searches, suggesting that they possess virulence factors that facilitate subcutaneous infections and\/or inhabit natural niches that make them more likely to be traumatically inoculated.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jof8040343","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,27]],"date-time":"2022-03-27T21:29:36Z","timestamp":1648416576000},"page":"343","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Fungal Infections of Implantation: More Than Five Years of Cases of Subcutaneous Fungal Infections Seen at the UK Mycology Reference Laboratory"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0585-5721","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrew M.","family":"Borman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"UK Health Security Agency National Mycology Reference Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK"},{"name":"Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4474-2391","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mark","family":"Fraser","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UK Health Security Agency National Mycology Reference Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zoe","family":"Patterson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UK Health Security Agency National Mycology Reference Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher J.","family":"Linton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UK Health Security Agency National Mycology Reference Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Palmer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UK Health Security Agency National Mycology Reference Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elizabeth M.","family":"Johnson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UK Health Security Agency National Mycology Reference Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK"},{"name":"Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Anaissie, E.J., McGinnis, M.R., and Pfaller, M.A. (2009). 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