Nguyen Quynh-Giao Ly, Rosen Ted
Department of Dermatology, Baylor College of Medicine, 1977 Butler Blvd, Suite E6.200, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
J Fungi (Basel). 2015 Jan 14;1(1):4-12. doi: 10.3390/jof1010004.
Protothecosis is a rare infection, which has the potential to cause severe disease in patients with underlying immunosuppression. We describe a case of an elderly female with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), as well as other risk factors, who presented with pustular and erythematous plaques, initially presumed to be leukemia cutis. A biopsy with special stains revealed the lesions to be cutaneous protothecosis, thus presenting a most unusual concurrence of disease entities. The literature to date on this rare infection will be reviewed.
原藻病是一种罕见的感染性疾病，有潜在可能在潜在免疫抑制患者中引发严重疾病。我们描述了一例老年女性患者，她患有慢性淋巴细胞白血病（CLL）以及其他风险因素，出现了脓疱性和红斑性斑块，最初被认为是皮肤白血病。一次进行了特殊染色的活检显示病变为皮肤原藻病，从而呈现出一种极为罕见的疾病并发情况。本文将对迄今为止关于这种罕见感染的文献进行综述。
