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Human Case of Lobomycosis

Sameer Elsayed, Susan Kuhn, Duane Barber, Deirdre L. Church, Stewart Adams, Richard Kasper

Emerging infectious diseases · 2004 · 62 citations · 12 references

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We describe a 42-year-old woman with histologically confirmed lobomycosis, a cutaneous fungal infection rarely reported outside of Latin America. Our case represents the first published report of imported human lobomycosis in Canada and the fifth in an industrialized country.

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