Abstract

VARON S, Gina; PACHECO, Aura  and  LAZARDE L, Janet. Aislamiento e Identificación Micológica de Paraccocidioides brasiliensis de una lesión bucal  : Reporte de un caso. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2005, vol.43, n.2, pp.141-145. ISSN 0001-6365.

The Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is the causal agent of a human systemic disease, the Paracoccidioidomicosis endemic in Center and South America, that produces oral manifestations, and in occasions these are the first and main infection sign-symptoms. The diagnosis of this mycosis is based on the isolation and identification of the fungus in the clinical samples. A 59 years old male patient attends to the Dentistry Faculty of the U.C.V, referred to present granulomatous lesion at level of the lower alveolous mucosa, with a provisional diagnosis of squamous carcinoma. For the clinical characteristics of the lesion and the patient's antecedent of working in land fumigation, it is decided to carry out the isolation and identification of the Paraccocidioides brasiliensis through mycological and histopathologycal studies, being confirmed the diagnosis of Paracoccidioidomicosis.

Keywords : Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; Paracoccidioidomicosis; aislamiento; identificación; diagnóstico micológico.