Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is the agent of cause of paracoccidioidomycosis (South American Blastomycosis or Brazilian Blastomycosis).

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is a facultative intracellular dimorphic fungus that causes paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM), the most important deep mycosis in Latin America.

Only a small percentage of individuals infected by P. brasiliensis develop clinical PCM, possibly in part because of genetically determined interindividual variability of host immunity.

Pathology

 paracoccidioidomycosis
 Paracoccidioides brasiliensis disseminated disease

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