%0 Journal Article
%T Cutaneous Protothecosis in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Case Report and Literature Review
%A Quynh-Giao Ly Nguyen
%A Ted Rosen
%J Journal of Fungi
%P 4-12
%D 2014
%R 10.3390/jof1010004
%X Protothecosis is a rare infection, which has the potential to cause severe disease in patients with underlying immunosuppression. We describe a case of an elderly female with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), as well as other risk factors, who presented with pustular and erythematous plaques, initially presumed to be leukemia cutis. A biopsy with special stains revealed the lesions to be cutaneous protothecosis, thus presenting a most unusual concurrence of disease entities. The literature to date on this rare infection will be reviewed.
%K protothecosis
%K Prototheca wickerhamii
%K achlorophyllic algae
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/1/1/4