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The cell-mediated immune reaction in the cutaneous lesion of Chromoblastomycosis and their correlation with different clinical forms of the disease

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Chromoblastomycosis is a fungal infection caused by dematiaceous fungi inducing skin lesions of difficult treatment and of frequent recurrence. The objective of the present investigation was to characterize cell-mediated tissue reactions in the skin in cases of Chromoblastomycosis using histopathology and immunocytochemistry methods and to correlate them with different clinical forms of Chromoblastomycosis. Biopsies from 19 patients were stained with HE and Giemsa, and serial sections were immunohistochemically stained using CD45RO, CD20, CD4, CD8, CD68, CD1a, CD34, IL4, IL10, TNF-α and IFN-γ antibodies. A quantitative and semi quantitative analysis of the cell subsets and cytokines in the inflammatory infiltrates was performed by counting ten high-power fields (400×). The cutaneous lesion presented as verrucous plaque (n = 15) or erythematous atrophic plaque (n = 4). We observed two types of tissue reaction: A) a granulomatous reaction with a suppurative granuloma with several fungi cells in the cutaneous lesion presenting as verrucous plaque; B) a granulomatous reaction with a tuberculoid granuloma with few fungi cells in the cutaneous lesion presenting as atrophic plaque. The data obtained suggest that patients with lesion presented as verrucous plaque have a type Th2 immunological response, while patients with lesion presented as erythematous atrophic plaque have a type Th1 response.

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    Solange Corrêa Garcia Pires d'Ávila, Carla Pagliari & Maria Irma Seixas Duarte

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Corrêa Garcia Pires d'Ávila, S., Pagliari, C. & Seixas Duarte, M.I. The cell-mediated immune reaction in the cutaneous lesion of Chromoblastomycosis and their correlation with different clinical forms of the disease. Mycopathologia 156, 51–60 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022948329193

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