Categories: Disorder
Type: Fungus
Name: Loboa loboi
Importance- to Body:
Cutaneous Infection
Distribution- in Body:
Skin; Skin nodules and plaques resembling keloid scars
Epidemiology: Fungus
Food Sources:
None Listed
Environmental/Geographic Sources:
mainly in South and Central America; associated with dolphin exposure
Diagonosis:
Tissue fungal culture
Treatment:
Treat with cryotherapy and surgical excision. Poor response to antifungal therapy.
Supplemental information:
Source: Cutaneous Manifestations Of Waterborne Infections by: Lucinda Elko, MD, RPh, Keith Rosenbach, MD, PhD*, and John Sinnott, MD