Quite a few slides were examined histologically and roundish cells with a thick, yellow-brownish capsule were detected, i.e. a fungal infection was present. Especially it is of interest, that the patient was inmunologically suppressed, because she had a malignant tumor. Probably this is the reason that an opportunistic infection took place so easily. Neither in the literature nor during our long activity in the tropics did we find a case of this fungal infection after an insect bite.