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Cutaneous protothecosis and AIDS
A Woolrich1, E Koestenblatt, P Don
1Department of Dermatology, New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, NY 10029.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
Cutaneous protothecosis is an uncommon algal infection with a varied clinical presentation that occurs mainly in immunocompromised patients. We describe a 33-year-old Hispanic woman with AIDS who had a verrucous plaque on the dorsum of her hand. A biopsy specimen revealed organisms suggestive of Prototheca. Culture confirmed the organism to be Prototheca wickerhamii. To our knowledge, this is the first case of cutaneous protothecosis reported in a patient with AIDS.