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[Paracoccidioidomycosis in pediatric patients: a description of 4 cases]
Moira Taicz1, Maria Teresa Rosanova1, David Bes1
1Servicio de Epidemiología e Infectología, Hospital de Pediatría Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Background:
Paracoccidioidomycosis is the most frequent systemic mycosis in Latin America, caused by the dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides. Paracoccidioidomycosis in children is uncommon. Our aim is to describe clinical features of patients who had a confirmed diagnosis of paracoccidioidomycosis in our hospital in the last 10 years.
Case Reports:
We describe 4 cases of paracoccidioidomycosis in previously healthy children from the north of our country. Diagnoses were made by biopsy or culture.
Conclusions:
The diagnosis of paracoccidioidomycosis should be considered in a patient coming from regions where Paracoccidioides is endemic, and presenting with a lymphoproliferative syndrome, anemia, eosinophilia and hypergammaglobulinemia.
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