This is the report of a case of acute chromoblastomycosis observed in a 59-year-old immunosuppressed patient in Barinas, Barinas State, Venezuela, provoked by an insect bite in the right upper arm, apparently cured by extirpation. Because the final diagnosis was made only by histological examination of the surgical specimen, no culture was performed.
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