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Prostatic involvement in disseminated paracoccidioidomycosis: An unusual presentation mimicking malignant neoplasm

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2020
Paracoccidioidomycosis is a granulomatous fungal infection, endemic to Latin America, which has great economic impact. Prostatic involvement is rare and can simulate other conditions, which poses a diagnostic challenge for the clinician.
Nayara de Paula Passarin, Antonio Augusto Claudio Pereira, Bruna Laginski Passos, Camila Mazeiro Gil, Lenir Nogueira Preciliano Marques, Giovana Locks Silveira, Simone Bonafé, Luiz Jorge Moreira Neto   +7 more
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Transcriptional profiling of a fungal granuloma reveals a low metabolic activity of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis yeasts and an actively regulated host immune response

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023
Granulomas are important immunological structures in the host defense against the fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, the main etiologic agent of Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM), a granulomatous systemic mycosis endemic in Latin America. We have performed
Bruno Montanari Borges, Rafael Berton Correia Ramos, Nycolas Willian Preite, Valéria de Lima Kaminski, Patrícia Alves de Castro, Maurício Camacho, Marina Ferreira Maximo, Taicia Pacheco Fill, Vera Lúcia Garcia Calich, Aimee M. Traynor, Özlem Sarikaya-Bayram, Sean Doyle, Özgür Bayram, Claudia Barbosa Ladeira de Campos, André Zelanis, Gustavo H. Goldman, Flávio Vieira Loures   +16 more
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Predictive value of serologic tests in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with paracoccidioidomycosis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1987
A serologic study was undertaken in a group of 43 patients with active paracoccidioidomycosis who were treated in the same form (ketoconazole), for identical periods of time (6 months), and folio wed-up for various periods posttherapy. The tests employed
Luz Elena Cano, Angela Restrepo
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Clinical and Demographic Features of Paracoccidioidomycosis in Argentina: A Multicenter Study Analysis of 466 Cases

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Information on paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) in Argentina is fragmented and has historically been based on estimates, supported only by a series of a few reported cases. Considering the lack of global information, a national multicentric study in order to
Gustavo Giusiano, Fernanda Tracogna, Gabriela Santiso, Florencia Rojas, Fernando Messina, Vanesa Sosa, Yone Chacón, Maria de los Ángeles Sosa, Javier Mussin, María Emilia Cattana, Andrea Vazquez, Patricia Formosa, Norma Fernández, Milagros Piedrabuena, Ruth Valdez, Florencia Davalos, Mariana Fernández, Alejandra Acuña, Alejandra Aguilera, Liliana Guelfand, Javier Afeltra, Guillermo Garcia Effron, Gladys Posse, Susana Amigot, Julian Serrano, Otilia Sellares, Christian Álvarez, Gloria Pineda, Susana Carnovale, Laura Zalazar, Cristina Canteros   +30 more
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Clinical and Eco-Epidemiological Aspects of a Novel Hyperendemic Area of Paracoccidioidomycosis in the Tocantins-Araguaia Basin (Northern Brazil), Caused by Paracoccidioides sp.

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is the most prevalent systemic mycosis in Brazil. The disease is caused by dimorphic fungi nested within the Paracoccidioides genus.
Alessandra G. Krakhecke-Teixeira, Danielle H. Yamauchi, Alexsandra Rossi, Herdson R. de Sousa, Hans G. Garces, Joaquim L. Júnior, Antônio O. S. Júnior, Maria Sueli S. Felipe, Eduardo Bagagli, Heitor F. de Andrade, Marcus de M. Teixeira   +10 more
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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2015
SUMMARYThe epidemiological characteristics of paracoccidioidomycosis were reviewed and updated. The new endemic areas in Brazil were discussed in the section regarding the geographic distribution of the mycosis.
Roberto MARTINEZ
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Paracoccidioidomycosis – description of two cases autochthonous in Ceará

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010
Paracoccidioidomycosis is endemic in most countries of Latin America. Brazil has the greatest number of cases, with no autochthonous case registered in the state of Ceará. The cases of two patients that had never gone outside the State of Ceará and lived
Mônica Cardoso Façanha, Anastácio de Queiroz Souza, Vaulice Sales Café, Bodo Wanke   +3 more
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Targeting the P10 Peptide in Maturing Dendritic Cells via the DEC205 Receptor In Vivo: A New Therapeutic Strategy against Paracoccidioidomycosis

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a systemic mycosis caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, a thermally dimorphic fungus, which is the most frequent endemic systemic mycosis in many Latin American countries, where ~10 million people are believed to be ...
Suelen S. Santos, Eline Rampazo, Carlos P. Taborda, Joshua D. Nosanchuk, Silvia B. Boscardin, Sandro R. Almeida   +5 more
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Paracoccidioidomycosis in Brazil: 25‐Year Nationwide Trends in Mortality, Hospitalisations and In‐Hospital Deaths of a Neglected Systemic Mycosis

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To analyse mortality, hospitalisations and in‐hospital mortality related to paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) in Brazil, 2000–2024, from a spatio‐temporal and social inequalities perspective. Methods We conducted a mixed ecological study using death certificates from the Mortality Information System and hospital admissions from the ...
Anderson Fuentes Ferreira, Jorg Heukelbach, Eliana Amorim de Souza, Maria Aparecida Shikanai‐Yasuda, Lisandra Serra Damasceno, Terezinha do Menino Jesus Silva Leitão, Ziadir Francisco Coutinho, Helia Kawa, Milena Maria Alves Vasconcelos, Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr   +9 more
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Serological diagnosis of paracoccidioidomycosis in HIV-coinfected patients

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2010
Paracoccidioidomycosis should be differentiated from other opportunistic diseases in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients who live in Latin America.
Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues, Lucia Helena Vitali, Roberto Martinez   +2 more
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