Cutaneous protothecosis in association with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

We report a case of protothecosis that occurred in the skin over the left tibial region of a 25-year-old man with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The lesion was noticed a few months after he swam in a lake in south Alabama. Biopsy and culture revealed Prototheca wickerhamii. We believ...

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Published inSouthern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.) Vol. 90; no. 8; pp. 831 - 832
Main Authors POLK, P, SANDERS, D. Y
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 01.08.1997
Subjects
Adult
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - diagnosis
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - microbiology
AIDS/HIV
Biological and medical sciences
Diagnosis, Differential
Human mycoses
Humans
Immunodeficiencies
Immunodeficiencies. Immunoglobulinopathies
Immunopathology
Infection - microbiology
Infectious diseases
Male
Medical sciences
Mycoses
Mycoses of the skin
Prototheca - isolation & purification
Skin Diseases, Infectious - diagnosis
Skin Diseases, Infectious - microbiology
Human
Immunopathology
Opportunistic infection
Skin disease
Mycosis
Algae
Retroviridae
AIDS
Parasitosis
Immune deficiency
Prototheca wickerhamii
Infection
Virus
Case study
Protothecosis
Viral disease
Lentivirinae
Complication
Skin
Human immunodeficiency virus
Thallophyta
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Summary:We report a case of protothecosis that occurred in the skin over the left tibial region of a 25-year-old man with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The lesion was noticed a few months after he swam in a lake in south Alabama. Biopsy and culture revealed Prototheca wickerhamii. We believe this is only the second reported case of cutaneous protothecosis in association with AIDS.
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ISSN:0038-4348
1541-8243
DOI:10.1097/00007611-199708000-00012