CROMOMICOSIS: UN CASO PRODUCIDO POR UNA CEPA NO ESPECIFICABLE DE CLADOSPORIUM

CHROMOMYCOSIS : REPORT OF A CASE PRODUCED BY AN ATYPICAL CLADOSPORIUM STRAIN From a 35 year old chromomycotic lesion in a leg of a Venezuelan labourer, all life resident of a warm and dry region, where Cladosporium carrionii is endemically present, a monstruous dematiaceous mold has been repeatedly isolated, which does not liquefy gelatin, grows slowly from 6° to 35°, shows aberrant morphologic characteristics and rarely produces irregulary cladosporial structures. Experimental chromomicotic lesions, both primary in loco and secondary along lymphatic pathway, were originated by intradermal injection of 0,1 ml of saline suspension of the unspecified growth. Spontaneous lesion cured after superficial irradiation (2400-4000). Experimental lesions cured after local thermotherapy or radiotherapy ; four secondary ones cured spontaneously after discharging or simply disappeared.