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Paracoccidioidomycosis (also known as Brazilian blastomycosis South American blastomycosisLutz-Splendore-de Almeida disease and Paracoccidioidal granuloma) is a mycosis caused by the fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Sometimes called South American blastomycosis paracoccidioidomycosis is caused by a different fungus than that which causes blastomycosis.