“…In total, the 11 studies included 764 patients, 152 with chromoblastomycosis and 612 without the disease (healthy patients or patients with other mycoses such as sporotrichosis, paracoccidioidomycosis, or mycetoma). 12 , 13 , 14 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 Two studies assessed the same sample of patients, testing different serological methods in each of them. 31 , 32 The studied patients were from India, China, Japan, Brazil, and Costa Rica.…”