Human case of lobomycosis.
We describe a 42-year-old woman with histologically confirmed lobomycosis, a cutaneous fungal infection rarely reported outside of Latin America. Our case represents the first published report of imported human lobomycosis in Canada and the fifth in an industrialized country.
Elsayed
Sameer
S
Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. sameer.elsayed@cls.ab.ca
Kuhn
Susan M
SM
Barber
Duane
D
Church
Deirdre L
DL
Adams
Stewart
S
Kasper
Richard
R
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010228:Paracoccidioides / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010229:Paracoccidioidomycosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy