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Occurrence of subcutaneous zygomycosis (Entomophthoromycosis Basidiobolae) caused by Basidiobolus haptosporus with pulmonary involvement

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A case of a two-year-old boy with multiple subcutaneous lesions caused by Basidiobolus haptosporus is presented.

The child had also a non-toxic familial goiter and clinical and radiological features of a pulmonary illness. The pulmonary manifestations only disappeared with the treatment with potassium iodide. The authors think that the pulmonary lesions must have arisen by direct spread of the fungus from the subcutaneous lesions of the chest.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Hospital Martagão Gesteira (Liga Baiana contra Mortalidade Intanfil), Brazil

    Achiléa Lisboa Bittencourt

  2. Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

    Achiléa Lisboa Bittencourt

  3. Centro para Estudo e Controle de Doenças Transmissíveis (LACEN), Bahia, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Santana Araujo

  4. Hospital Prof. Edgard Santos, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

    Maria do Socorro Fontoura Paes

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Bittencourt, A.L., das Graças Santana Araujo, M. & do Socorro Fontoura Paes, M. Occurrence of subcutaneous zygomycosis (Entomophthoromycosis Basidiobolae) caused by Basidiobolus haptosporus with pulmonary involvement. Mycopathologia 71, 155–158 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00473063

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