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Tropical Diseases:

I Leishmaniasis
II Paracoccidioidomycosis
III Blastomycocis
IV Chromoblastomycosis
V Lepra
VI Sporotrichosis
VII Histoplasmosis
VIII Rhinosporidiosis
IX Mycetomas
X Rhinoscleroma
XI Chagasdisease
XII Actinomycosis
XIII Mucormycosis
XIV Amoebiasis
XV Protothecosis
XVI Lobomycosis
XVII Phaeohyphomycosis
XVIII Pruritus actinicus
XIX Bite of snake
XX Coccidioidomycosis

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XX. Coccidioidomycosis

Case 70. Coccidioidomycosis / Eccrine poroma

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Fig. 70-A2

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Fig. 70-A2
Fig. 70-A2: Coccidioidomycosis

The patient is a native of the State Falcon / Venezuela. There are sandy deserts and dunes, so called "médanos", the habitat of the dimorphic fungus Coccidioides immitis. Its mycelial form grows in the sand and in the cultures at room temperatures as hyphae with arthrospores which we illustrate here. The pulmonary infection of the patient certainly took place in that region, because only in this region occur such fungal infections in our country. Now a dissemination of this fungus infection must have occurred.

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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela