Primary cutaneous cryptococcosis
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Josรฉ Luis Moreno Castillo; Gildo Del Negro; Elizabeth Heins-Vaccari; Natalina Ta
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Article
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1986
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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A 7-year-old boy, without apparent underlying disease, but with a non-specific failure in his cellular immunity, developed a cutaneous lesion on the left retroauricular area with spontaneous healing. Mycologic study revealed Cryptococcus neoformans, a capsule deficient strain, as the etiologic agent