Lobo's disease, also known as Lobomycosis is a blastomycosis, a fungal infection of the skin caused by Loboa loboi, and discovered by Brazil dermatologist Jorge Lobo. Other names which were given to the disease are: keloidal blastomycosis, Amazonian blastomycosis, blastomycoid granuloma, miraip and piraip. These last two names were given by Indians of the Amazon and mean that which burns. The disease is endemic in rural regions in South America and Central America. The disease is chronic and is characterized by keloidal nodular lesions occurring on the face, ears, or extremities. This disease is usually found in humans and bottle-nosed dolphins.

References

• Rodriguez-Toro G. Lobomycosis. Int J Dermatol. 1993 May;32(5):324-32. Review. PMID 8505156
• Sameer Elsayed, Susan M. Kuhn, Duane Barber, Deirdre L. Church, Stewart Adams, and Richard Kasper Human Case of Lobomycosis. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 10, No. 4, April 2004.

External links

• Lobomycosis. eMedicine.

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