An imported case of Blastomyces dermatitidis infection in Mexico.

Mycopathologia

Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Secretaría de Salud, México, D. F.

Published: March 2004

Blastomycosis is an acute or chronic primary infection of the respiratory system, endemic in North America (United States of America and Canada), Africa and Asia. We report a case in Mexico, in a three years old child who had been born in California and lived in Chicago, U.S.A. The patient presented pulmonary symptoms prior to development of a skin ulcer. Blastomyces dermatitidis was identified by mycological and molecular procedures. The patient was successfully treated with amphotericin B, oral ketoconazole and itraconazole.

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