Although histoplasmosis is generally a self-limited disease, disseminated infection can occur in patients lacking effective cell-mediated immunity, reaching virtually every organ, even the genitourinary tract in rare cases. We report a case of epididymo-orchitis in an immunocompetent 38-year-old bricklayer from the rural area of Villeta, Cundinamarca, Colombia. The patient presented with testicular pain and macroscopic scrotal changes requiring a left orchiectomy, with microbiological isolation and molecular confi rmation of Histoplasma capsulatum.
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Botero-García, C. A., Faccini-Martínez, Á. A., Uribe, E., Calixto, O. J., Pérez-Díaz, C. E., Osejo-Diago, P. P., & Franco-Maz, P. G. (2017). Epididymo-orchitis caused by histoplasma capsulatum in a colombian patient. Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 50(6), 868–870. https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0267-2017
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