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SUBMITTER: de Azevedo CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4508443 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Azevedo Conceição M P S CM Gomes Renata R RR Vicente Vania A VA Santos Daniel W C L DW Marques Sirlei G SG do Nascimento Mariana M F MM Andrade Caroline E W CE Silva Raimunda R RR Queiroz-Telles Flávio F de Hoog G Sybren GS
Journal of clinical microbiology 20150617 8
We report a fatal case of a chromoblastomycosis-like infection caused by a novel species of Fonsecaea in a 52-year-old immunocompetent Caucasian male from an area of chromoblastomycosis endemicity in Brazil. The patient had a 30-year history of slowly evolving, verrucous lesions on the right upper arm which gradually affected the entire arm, the left hemifacial area, and the nose. Subsequent dissemination to the brain was observed, which led to death of the patient. The internal transcribed spac ...[more]