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Cutaneous protothecosis sometimes poses diagnostic and therapeutic problems. Isolation of the causative organism may not be successful and spores may be mistaken for other skin diseases unless the characteristic sporangia...
Protothecosis is a rare cutaneous soft tissue infection caused by the genus prototheca, most commonly Prototheca wickerhatmii.
An 80-year-old woman has had a painful or tender, non-healing, eczematous plaque on the...
Choi JH, Suh MK, Shin DJ, Suh JC, Yeum JS, Lee HC, Lim SW, Kim YJ, Lee JW, Ha GY, Kim JR, Na GY
KMID: 2303093
Korean J Dermatol.
2002 Sep;40(9):1116-1120.
Protothecosis is an unusual cutaneous soft tissue infection caused by the Prototheca, which is a genus of the unicelluar, achloric algae. We report a case of cutaneous protothecosis in a...