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Case Reports
. 2019 Apr;100(4):772.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0700.

Cutaneous Coccidioidomycosis with Tissue Arthroconidia

Alexandro Bonifaz  1 , Andrés Tirado-Sánchez  1 , Gloria M González  2
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Case Reports

Cutaneous Coccidioidomycosis with Tissue Arthroconidia

Alexandro Bonifaz et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019 Apr.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
(A) Cutaneous coccidioidomycosis (basal). (B) Coccidioidomycosis after treatment. (C) Histopathology, with granulomatous infiltrate and spherule of Coccidioides sp. (hematoxylin and eosin [H&E], 40×). (D) Histopathology at the corneal layer with multiple filaments and rexolytic arthroconidia of Coccidioides sp. (H&E, 40×). This figure appears in color at www.ajtmh.org.
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