摘要:The authors report the case of a 22-year-old man referred seven months after the onset of papulo-nodular skin lesions, lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly and hepatomegaly. Mycologic and histologic examination of skin lesions enabled the diagnosis of African histoplasmosis,by Histoplasma capsulatum var duboisii . The lymph nodes were caseous. The culture in Lowenstein-Jensen medium was negative.