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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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III. Blastomycocis

Case 22. Blastomycocis / Lymph node tuberculosis

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Fig. 22-A3

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Fig. 22-A3
Fig. 22-A3: Blastomycosis

With higher magnification and in the HE stain a singular budding is seen in the tissue which represents the multiplication of the fungus. Here mother and daughter cell have the same size. Both fungus cells show the aspect of a double cell membrane, but this is an artifice, because a retraction took place in the preparation of the histological slide. All yeast-like fungus cells have only one membrane.

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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela