A case of disseminated sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis

Fernandes, Blenda
Caligiorne, Rachel Basques
Coutinho, Dayana Monteiro
Gomes, Renata R.
Rocha-Silva, Fabiana
Machado, Amanda Sanchez
Santrer, Emanoelle Fernandes Rutren La
Assunção, Claudia Barbosa
Guimarães, Cássio Ferreira
Laborne, Maria Silvia
Nunes, Mauricio Buzelin
Vicente, Vania A.
de Hoog, Sybren

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Publication date

September 2018

DOI

10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.03.006

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Abstract

This paper presents a case of disseminated sporotrichosis in a 13-year-old female, originating from a rural area in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The patient was hospitalized in Santa Casa hospital of Belo Horizonte, with hyporexia, prostration, fever and disseminated ulcerative lesions, besides anemia, leucopenia and sepsis of probable cutaneous focus. The patient was admitted without proven immunosuppression. She was diagnosed with cutaneous-disseminated sporotrichosis. The drug therapy chosen was itraconazole during 12 months, leading to important clinical improvement and healing of cutaneous lesions