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Cutaneous protothecosis in association with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
1Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
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.