An Unusual Case of Cutaneous Blastomycosis

BLASTOMYCOSIS, cutaneous or systemic, is a rare disease in New England, though not uncommon in other parts of North America. Reports of reinfection are scarce. The chronicity of cutaneous blastomycosis and its tendency to recur in previously affected areas after months and even years are well known.Cutaneous blastomycosis is usually a benign, chronic and disfiguring disease. Systemic blastomycosis, on the other hand, has a mortality of approximately 92 per cent, though in recent years this figure has been lowered by the use of the aromatic diamidines, especially stilbamidine.1 Cutaneous blastomycosis, as a rule, localizes on the exposed surfaces of . . .