Acute paracoccidioidomycosis worsened by immunosuppressive therapy due to a misdiagnosis of Crohn's disease.

• Main Authors: Eduardo Mastrangelo Marinho Falcão (Author), Manuela da Costa Medeiros (Author), Andrea D Ávila Freitas (Author), João Carlos de Almeida Soares (Author), Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel (Author), Leonardo Pereira Quintella (Author), Dayvison Francis Saraiva Freitas (Author), Priscila Marques de Macedo (Author), Antônio Carlos Francesconi do Valle (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a systemic mycosis endemic in Latin America, mostly in Brazil. The involvement of the gastrointestinal tract is uncommon and usually associated with the acute form. Recently, a cluster of acute PCM cases has been described in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We report a 42-yea...