Cutaneous protothecosis--a case report.
The present report describes a case of cutaneous protothecosis, as confirmed by skin biopsy and culture, in a 62-year-old man with an erythematous plaque lesion on his back. The disease was initially detected after return from a trip to Taiwan. The characteristic sporangia and biochemical sugar assimilation tests indicated the organism to be Prototheca wickerhamii. Oral administration of (5-FC) failed to have any effect and so finally, the lesion had to be removed by surgical excision.
Otoyama
K
K
Tomizawa
N
N
Higuchi
I
I
Horiuchi
Y
Y
D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011525:Prototheca