Accidental inoculation blastomycosis

Cutis. 1977 Mar;19(3):334-5, 337.

Abstract

The pathogenesis of blastomycosis as a primary pulmonary infection has been well established and widely accepted. The rate cases of primary cutaneous inoculation are in all documented instances related to "laboratory" accidents. A case of inoculation with a culture suspension of Blastomyces Dermatitidis is herein reported. A slow healing chancre remained active for about eight months.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Autopsy
  • Blastomycosis / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Laboratory Infection / etiology*
  • Wounds, Penetrating / complications*