: A new agent of chromoblastomycosis.

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Laboratorio de Micologia y Fitopatologia (LAMFU), Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota 111711, Colombia.

Published: March 2019

Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic cutaneous and subcutaneous mycosis, is caused by dematiaceous fungi, the most frequently implicated are and We report a woman who was treated before with mycological cure, but she experience a relapse requiring treatment again. Direct microscopic examination and skin biopsy with culture were necessary to identify a Exophiala psychrophila, and for our knowledge this is the first case reported.

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