RGD uses the Human Disease Ontology (DO, https://disease-ontology.org/) for disease curation across species. RGD automatically downloads each new release of the ontology on a monthly basis. Some additional terms which are required for RGD's curation purposes but are not currently covered in the official version of DO have been added. As corresponding terms are added to DO, these custom terms are retired and the DO terms substituted in existing annotations and subsequently used for curation.
A primary systemic mycosis located_in subcutaneous tissues, located_in brain, located_in sinuses, located_in lungs, or located_in peritoneal cavity, has_material_basis_in Exophiala dermatitidis, has_material_basis_in Phialophora, has_material_basis_in Curvularia hawaiiensis, has_material_basis_in Exserohilum, has_material_basis_in Cladophialophora bantiana, has_material_basis_in Phaeoannellomyces, has_material_basis_in Aureobasidium, has_material_basis_in Cladosporium cladosporoides, has_material_basis_in Alternaria or has_material_basis_in Rhinocladiella mackenziei and results_in_formation_of subcutaneous abscesses arising at the site of minor trauma, and occur in both immunosuppressed and immunocompetent individuals. (DO)