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This is the report of a case of acute chromoblastomycosis observed in a 59-year-old immunosuppressed patient in Barinas, Barinas State, Venezuela, provoked by an insect bite in the right upper arm, apparently cured by extirpation. Because the final diagnosis was made only by histological examination of the surgical specimen, no culture was performed.
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Chromoblastomycosis/diagnosis , Chromoblastomycosis/etiology , Immunocompromised Host , Insect Bites and Stings/complications , Acute Disease , Chromoblastomycosis/pathology , Female , Humans , Insect Bites and Stings/microbiology , Middle Aged , VenezuelaABSTRACT
A symmetrical deforming cutaneous sporotrichosis with verrucous lesions on both hands and of long clinical duration is reported. The difficulties in making an etiological diagnosis are considered.
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Hand Deformities, Acquired/microbiology , Hand Dermatoses/complications , Sporotrichosis/complications , Hand Dermatoses/microbiology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Sporotrichosis/drug therapyABSTRACT
The deep mycoses are classified in 5 groups. Paracoccidioidomycosis belongs in the third group, caused by obligatory pathogenic fungi. In most patients, paracoccidioidomycosis is acquired by aspiration.
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Mycoses/classification , Paracoccidioidomycosis/classification , Humans , Inhalation , Paracoccidioidomycosis/transmissionABSTRACT
In a 3-year-old boy disseminated histoplasmosis was recognized from a liver biopsy. The patient died shortly afterwards and had foci of the disease in liver, spleen, and kidneys. Large numbers of yeast cells of Histoplasma capsulatum were found within histiocytes in other organs including the eye. This rare finding is remarkable in view of the search for Histoplasma capsulatum in the syndrome known as "so-called histoplasmosis of the choroid."
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Choroid/pathology , Histoplasmosis/pathology , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child, Preschool , Choroid/blood supply , Choroiditis/etiology , Female , Histiocytes/pathology , Histoplasmosis/etiology , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Blastomycosis/pathology , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Amphotericin B/therapeutic use , Amyloidosis/complications , Blastomycosis/complications , Blastomycosis/drug therapy , Carcinoma/complications , Child , Diabetes Complications , Female , Histoplasmosis/complications , Humans , Lymphoma/complications , Male , Middle Aged , SpheroplastsSubject(s)
Basidiomycota/pathogenicity , Mycoses/etiology , Animals , Cricetinae , Mice , Mycoses/pathology , Species SpecificitySubject(s)
Histoplasmosis , Skin Diseases, Parasitic , Adolescent , Humans , Lymph Nodes/parasitology , Lymphadenitis/etiology , MaleABSTRACT
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP), in addition to acute generalized histoplasmosis, was found at autopsy of three adult males, 23, 51, and 52 years of age. All three patients became ill in the same region of Venezuela, south of Lake Maracaibo, an area considered highly endemic for histoplasmosis. The PAP may be due to an environmental factor.
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Histoplasmosis/complications , Lung Diseases, Fungal/complications , Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis/complications , Adrenal Cortex/pathology , Adult , Histoplasmosis/pathology , Humans , Lung/pathology , Lung Diseases, Fungal/pathology , Male , Middle Aged , Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis/etiology , Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis/pathology , Pulmonary Alveoli/pathology , Tropical ClimateSubject(s)
Breast Diseases/diagnosis , Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis , Mycoses/diagnosis , Adult , Blastomycosis/diagnosis , Blastomycosis/pathology , Blastomycosis/surgery , Breast/pathology , Breast Diseases/pathology , Breast Diseases/surgery , Cryptococcosis/diagnosis , Cryptococcosis/pathology , Cryptococcosis/surgery , Cysts/diagnosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Histoplasmosis/diagnosis , Histoplasmosis/pathology , Histoplasmosis/surgery , Humans , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Two cases of pseudotumoral eosinophilic ileocolitis are described. Apparently there are two forms: the first produced by nematodes with vasculitis and the other one produced by microfilaria with eosinophilic granulomatas. Similar observations are published in Costa Rica. Clinical importance, location and differential are discussed.
