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Infecting Mice with Malassezia spp. to Study the Fungus-Host Interaction
Published on: November 6, 2019
Malassezia infection associated with stucco keratosis
Zhan Zhou1, Jiali Zhu1,2, Bin Jiao1,2
1Department of Dermatology, The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
Abstract:
We report a case of a 20-year-old young woman with a large stucco keratosis in the mons veneris, one of the clinical variants of Seborrheic keratoses (SKs). Periodic acid-Schiff staining revealed a large number of Malassezia spores in the stratum corneum. After oral antifungal treatment with itraconazole for 4 weeks, the benign tumor was completely cleared without residue or recurrence, which may open a new perspective for exploring the pathogenesis of SKs.
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