PRIMARY HISTOPLASMOSIS OF ORAL CAVITY

Primary cutaneous or mucosal histoplasmosis is a very rare disease and it is is benign and self-limited in duration.Infection may follow inoculation of spores through skin and mucous membranes as in laboratory infection and presents as a chancriform syndrome, with a nodule or ulcer at the site of inoculation and associated lymphangitis and lymphadenitis. Its spores are infectious to humans.