Loboa loboi

Lo·bo·a lo·bo·i

(lō-bō'ă lō-bō'ē),

A species of fungus causing lobomycosis. The organism has not been grown in culture.

Loboa loboi

a unicellular organism, probably a yeast, that causes lobomycosis in dolphins and keloidal blastomycosis in humans.

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blastomycosis
cutaneous blastomycosis
European blastomycosis
Lacazia loboi
Lobo disease
lobomycosis
North American blastomycosis
South American blastomycosis

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It is the only method for etiologic diagnosis of some organisms such as Pneumocystis jiroveci (formerly Pneumocystis carinii), Loboa loboi, and Rhinosporidium seeberi.

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Haubold EM, Aronson JF, Cowwan DE Isolation of fungal rDNA from bottlenose dolphin skin infected with Loboa loboi.

HIV and lacaziosis, Brazil

Loboa loboi has never been cultivated in vitro (1,2), although it has been successfully transmitted to armadillos, tortoises, and the footpads of hamsters and mice under experimental conditions (2,6).