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Volume 30, Number 12—December 2024
Dispatch

Lobomycosis in Amazon Region, Bolivia, 2022

Maria I. Méndez, Rony Colanzi, Jose A. Suárez, Homero Penagos, Carolina Hernandez, Ruth Garcia-Redondo, Juan D. Ramirez, and Alberto Paniz-MondolfiComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Centro Nacional de Enfermedades Tropicales, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (M.I. Méndez); Laboratorio Catedral, Santa Cruz (R. Colanzi); Universidad Internacional Sek Quito, Quito, Ecuador (J.A. Suárez); Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, Chiriquí, Panama (H. Penagos); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA (C. Hernandez, R. Garcia-Redondo, J.D. Ramirez, A. Paniz-Mondolfi)

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Figure 1

Clinical manifestations of lesions in patient with lobomycosis in Amazon Region, Bolivia, 2022. A) Multiple hyperpigmented, confluent keloid-like nodular lesions with overriding telangiectasias and patchy crusted and eroded squamous areas were noted on the helix and lobule of the left ear. B, C) Histologic examination of lesion specimens showed oval-to-round shaped cells that had connecting tubular projections organized in a string-of-pearls pattern, in pairs and individually. B) Fontana-Masson stain; original magnification ×1,000. C) Gömöri methenamine silver stain; original magnification ×400.

Figure 1. Clinical manifestations of lesions in patient with lobomycosis in Amazon Region, Bolivia, 2022. A) Multiple hyperpigmented, confluent keloid-like nodular lesions with overriding telangiectasias and patchy crusted and eroded squamous areas were noted on the helix and lobule of the left ear. B, C) Histologic examination of lesion specimens showed oval-to-round shaped cells that had connecting tubular projections organized in a string-of-pearls pattern, in pairs and individually. B) Fontana-Masson stain; original magnification ×1,000. C) Gömöri methenamine silver stain; original magnification ×400.

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