Abstract
Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic and progressive subcutaneous mycosis caused mainly by the fungus Fonsecae pedrosoi. During the infections, exudatives lesions and granuloma (composed mainly by macrophages and neutrophils) are often observed in skin biopsies. Studies from the 90s suggested that conidia could survive inside macrophages. After stimulation with IFN-³, those macrophages would …