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PROTOTHECOSIS, AN INFECTION BY ALGAE

A case of protothecosis affecting the skin of the face of a young Chinese girl due to Prototheca wickerhamii is reported from Hong Kong. The disease persisted for eighteen years, was slowly progressive with local spread and extension to neighbouring conjunctival mucosa, and to the contralateral cheek by way of lymphatics, without systemic involvement.