P098 Human protothecosis: Acase report in Northeastern Brazil

ABSTRACT: Abstract

Poster session 1, September 21, 2022, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

 

Introduction

Protothecosis is an emergent disease caused by members of the genus Prototheca. Most such infections probably occurred by traumática inoculation into subcutaneous tissues.

Objectives

It is to report a case of human cutaneous protothecosis identified in the state of Maranhão, northeast Brazil. Case report: 75-year-old patient, Merchant, from the municipality of São Luís Island, Northeastern Brazil. He sought care referring to an erythematous and painful lesion on the left arm that started 6 months before the treatment. On examination, he presented an infiltrative, hyperemic lesion with burning pain throughout the upper limb (Fig. 1). The patient reported that a week before the onset o

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC9509797 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature