Systemic paracoccidiodomycosis
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Paracoccidioidomycosis is a deep systemic mycosis, endemic in some Latin American countries, with an acute/subacute clinical presentation. In our country, it is the main differential diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. We describe the clinical case of a 48-year-old man from a rural area, immunocompetent, who presented clinically with respiratory distress, progressive weight loss and lesions in the oral mucosa; as radiological findings, he presented bilateral reticular infiltrates. From a mycological point of view, the presence of the microorganism was evidenced in various biological samples: biopsies of oropharyngeal lesions and mycological study of sputum. Targeted treatment with intravenous antifungals was performed, presenting a good response to it with clinical improvement.
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