Table 3.
Distribution of paracoccidioidomycosis by gender of patients in a large series
| Authors (reference) | Country of report, yr of publication | Total no. of patients | No. of patients reported |
Ratio of males to females | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | ||||
| Londero and Ramos (46) | Brazil, 1990 | 260 | 245 | 15 | 16.3:1 |
| Villar et al. (99) | Colombia, 1992 | 198 | 190 | 8 | 23.7:1 |
| Castillo et al. (22) | Colombia, 1994 | 333 | 316 | 17 | 18.6:1 |
| Blotta et al. (13) | Brazil, 1999 | 584 | 492 | 92 | 5.3:1 |
| Bicalho et al. (11) | Brazil, 2001 | 62 | 60 | 2 | 30:1 |
| Lacaz et al. (43)b | Brazil, 2002 | 1,073 | 982 | 91 | 10.8:1 |
| Lacaz et al. (43)a | Brazil, 2002 | 2,837 | 2,608 | 229 | 11.3:1 |
| Restrepo et al. (unpublished) | Colombia, 2010 | 215 | 212 | 3 | 70.6:1 |
| Total | 5,562 | 5,105 | 457 | 11.1:1 | |
| % | 100 | 91.8 | 8.2 | ||
a
Patients with data who were diagnosed until 1964 in the Mycology Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
b
Patients with data who were seen from 1944 to 1965 in the Hospital das Clinicas, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.