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Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis Caused by Cryptococcus gatti in an Elderly Patient

According to the spread of Cryptococcus sp., fungal infections can be classified as primary or secondary. In primary cutaneous cryptococcosis, the fungi are restricted to the skin of the patients, without systemic involvement. The incidence of primary cutaneous cryptococcosis is high in patients wit...

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Autores principales: Belda, Walter, Casolato, Ana T. S., Luppi, Juliana B., Passero, Luiz Felipe D., Criado, Paulo R.
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9501260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36136617
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7090206
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author Belda, Walter
Casolato, Ana T. S.
Luppi, Juliana B.
Passero, Luiz Felipe D.
Criado, Paulo R.
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description According to the spread of Cryptococcus sp., fungal infections can be classified as primary or secondary. In primary cutaneous cryptococcosis, the fungi are restricted to the skin of the patients, without systemic involvement. The incidence of primary cutaneous cryptococcosis is high in patients with immunosuppression, and this type of infection is rarely observed in patients who are immunocompetent. In the present case report, a patient who is immunocompetent and has systemic comorbidity reported that, after skin trauma, ulcerovegetative lesions appeared in the right upper arm; the etiologic agent was identified as Cryptococcus gatti, serotype B. The cutaneous lesions healed completely after 5 months of fluconazole treatment.
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spelling pubmed-95012602022-09-24 Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis Caused by Cryptococcus gatti in an Elderly Patient Belda, Walter Casolato, Ana T. S. Luppi, Juliana B. Passero, Luiz Felipe D. Criado, Paulo R. Trop Med Infect Dis Case Report According to the spread of Cryptococcus sp., fungal infections can be classified as primary or secondary. In primary cutaneous cryptococcosis, the fungi are restricted to the skin of the patients, without systemic involvement. The incidence of primary cutaneous cryptococcosis is high in patients with immunosuppression, and this type of infection is rarely observed in patients who are immunocompetent. In the present case report, a patient who is immunocompetent and has systemic comorbidity reported that, after skin trauma, ulcerovegetative lesions appeared in the right upper arm; the etiologic agent was identified as Cryptococcus gatti, serotype B. The cutaneous lesions healed completely after 5 months of fluconazole treatment. MDPI 2022-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9501260/ /pubmed/36136617 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7090206 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Criado, Paulo R.
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title_fullStr Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis Caused by Cryptococcus gatti in an Elderly Patient
title_full_unstemmed Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis Caused by Cryptococcus gatti in an Elderly Patient
title_short Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis Caused by Cryptococcus gatti in an Elderly Patient
title_sort primary cutaneous cryptococcosis caused by cryptococcus gatti in an elderly patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9501260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36136617
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7090206
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