Human Case of Lobomycosis

Elsayed, Sameer; Kuhn, Susan M.; Barber, Duane; Church, Deirdre L.; Adams, Stewart; Kasper, Richard

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Human Case of Lobomycosis

Published Date:

Apr 2004

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Emerg Infect Dis. 10(4):715-718.

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Elsayed, Sameer ; Kuhn, Susan M. ; Barber, Duane ; Church, Deirdre L. ; Adams, Stewart ; ... More ▼

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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.

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