%0 Journal Article
%T Casu¨ªstica de cromomicosis en el estado Bol¨ªvar (1987-2010) y evaluaci¨®n de la sensibilidad in vitro de dos aislados de Fonsecaea pedrosoi
%A Cerme£¿o
%A Julman R
%A Gonz¨¢lez
%A Carelis
%J Revista de la Sociedad Venezolana de Microbiolog¨ªa
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X the purpose of this study was to determine chromomycosis prevalence during a 23-year period at two reference hospitals of bolivar state. a retrospective study was carried out through the revision of clinical case histories of patients with a chromomycosis diagnosis, registering fourteen cases of this disease. of these cases, 78.6% corresponded to males, most of them agricultural workers from rural areas; 28.6% presented verrucous lesions. the period of evaluation of the lesions varied between 5 months and 35 years. fonsecae pedrosoi was the etiologic agent isolated in three (21.4%) of the four patients whose samples were cultured. sensitivity was evaluated in vitro in only two cases through e-test£¿, showing resistance to systemic antifungals agents: amphotericine-b, 5-fluorocytosine, ketoconazole, fluconazole and itraconazole. two patients were treated with itraconazol, one of them improved and the other presented co-morbility with eumycotic mycetoma and died. chromomycosis prevalence during the period studied was low (0.6 cases/year); nevertheless, this infection constitutes a health problem for risk populations, mainly agricultural and mining workers at bolivar state who present verrucous lesions with a chronic evolution
%K chromomycosis
%K bolivar state
%K fonsecae pedrosoi
%K prevalence.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1315-25562011000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en