The First Reported Case of Majocchi's Granuloma with Malbranchea sp. in an Immunocompetent Patient

Majocchi's granuloma is a rare condition in which a dermatophyte invades the deeper layers of the dermis and subcutaneous tissue and can often be misidentified and treated as eczema. It has a variable presentation ranging from cutaneous lesions to deeper infections in immunocompromised patients...

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Autores principales: Govind, Anusha, L'Etoile, Nathan, Vasquez, Gustavo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5602487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28948055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9196528
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author Govind, Anusha
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description Majocchi's granuloma is a rare condition in which a dermatophyte invades the deeper layers of the dermis and subcutaneous tissue and can often be misidentified and treated as eczema. It has a variable presentation ranging from cutaneous lesions to deeper infections in immunocompromised patients. No prior cases have described the formation of Majocchi's granuloma with the deuteromycetes, Malabranchea.
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spelling pubmed-56024872017-09-25 The First Reported Case of Majocchi's Granuloma with Malbranchea sp. in an Immunocompetent Patient Govind, Anusha L'Etoile, Nathan Vasquez, Gustavo Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Majocchi's granuloma is a rare condition in which a dermatophyte invades the deeper layers of the dermis and subcutaneous tissue and can often be misidentified and treated as eczema. It has a variable presentation ranging from cutaneous lesions to deeper infections in immunocompromised patients. No prior cases have described the formation of Majocchi's granuloma with the deuteromycetes, Malabranchea. Hindawi 2017 2017-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5602487/ /pubmed/28948055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9196528 Text en Copyright © 2017 Anusha Govind et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short The First Reported Case of Majocchi's Granuloma with Malbranchea sp. in an Immunocompetent Patient
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