Disseminated Cutaneous Histoplasmosis and Its Recurrence in an Apparently Immunocompetent Patient
Jorge Alberto Cortez-Vila,
Carla Itzel Figueroa-Basurto,
Rosa María Lacy-Niebla
et al.
Abstract:Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection caused by the fungus
Histoplasma capsulatum
. It can manifest in various ways, ranging from pulmonary to disseminated presentations. Most of the disseminated cases are seen in immunocompromised patients; here, we present an unusual case of an 81-year-old Mexican male with a history of cave exposure in his childhood, with 75 years of incubation period of the disease, who developed disseminated cutaneous histoplasmosis with no evident immunocompromising… Show more
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