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Successful cryotherapy for a cutaneous alternariosis in a renal transplant recipient Volume 20, numéro 6, November-December 2010

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Dermatology Department, Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Praceta Mota Pinto, 3000-075 Coimbra, Portugal

Auteur(s) : Felicidade Santiago, David Serra, Ricardo Vieira, Maria Manuel Brites, Américo Figueiredo Dermatology Department, Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Praceta Mota Pinto, 3000-075 Coimbra, Portugal Alternaria sp., uncommon agents of phaeohyphomycosis, are dematiaceous hyphomycetes that grow in culture as black molds. Cutaneous infection with Alternaria sp. is rare and occurs predominantly in immunocompromised patients [1, 2]. A 55-year-old male patient, living in a rural [...]