It is, presumably, a rare cutaneous form of mosaicism.
The cutaneous forms respond well to antibiotics if treatment is started soon after symptoms appear.
The woman developed the milder cutaneous form of anthrax.
These patients had an indolent and cutaneous form of the disease, which caused new lesions to appear every few years.
Worldwide, most people who contract anthrax get the cutaneous form, in which spores enter the skin, usually through a cut or a scratch.
The reason for the change is that people with the cutaneous form are also at risk for developing inhalation anthrax, which requires the 60-day course.
They can also cause the less dangerous cutaneous form if rubbed into the skin.
Here the tracheae separate peripherally, covering the general body surface which results in a cutaneous form of gaseous exchange.
It exists in a cutaneous and systemic form, with the former being limited to the skin and the latter involving multiple organs.
The patient was diagnosed as suffering from a cutaneous form of anthrax, a highly infectious disease caused by bateria.