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 Introduction

Tropical Diseases:

I Leishmaniasis
II Paracoccidioidomycosis
III Blastomycocis
IV Chromoblastomycosis
V Lepra
VI Sporotrichosis
VII Histoplasmosis
VIII Rhinosporidiosis
IX Mycetomas
X Rhinoscleroma
XI Chagasdisease
XII Actinomycosis
XIII Mucormycosis
XIV Amoebiasis
XV Protothecosis
XVI Lobomycosis
XVII Phaeohyphomycosis
XVIII Pruritus actinicus
XIX Bite of snake
XX Coccidioidomycosis

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XV. Prototecosis

Case 65. Prototecosis / Carcinoma

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Fig. 65-A4

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Fig. 65-A4
Fig. 65-A4: Protothecosis

The suspected fungal elements were Grocott positive and were arranged partly in clusters. The species of algae in humans belong to the genus Prototheca. The green algae, however to the genus Chlorella. The latter are pathogenic for animals. In our case the P. wickerhamii was the pathogenic species. The first cases of protothecosis were described in the sixties of the last century. In Venezuela our cases were the first to be described.

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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela