A case of disseminated sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis

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

Medical Mycology Case Reports (Sep 2018)

A case of disseminated sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis

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

Affiliations

Blenda Fernandes: Center of Post-Graduation and Research-IEP, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil
Rachel Basques Caligiorne: Center of Post-Graduation and Research-IEP, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil; Corresponding author.
Dayana Monteiro Coutinho: Department of Dermatology, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil
Renata R. Gomes: Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology Post-graduation Program, Department of Basic Pathology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Fabiana Rocha-Silva: Center of Post-Graduation and Research-IEP, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil
Amanda Sanchez Machado: Center of Post-Graduation and Research-IEP, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil
Emanoelle Fernandes Rutren La Santrer: Center of Post-Graduation and Research-IEP, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil
Claudia Barbosa Assunção: Center of Post-Graduation and Research-IEP, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil
Cássio Ferreira Guimarães: Department of Dermatology, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil
Maria Silvia Laborne: Department of Dermatology, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil
Mauricio Buzelin Nunes: Center of Pathological Anatomy, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte Hospital, MG, Brazil
Vania A. Vicente: Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology Post-graduation Program, Department of Basic Pathology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Sybren de Hoog: Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, The Netherlands; Center of Expertise in Mycology of Radboudumc / Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 21
pp. 34 – 36

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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. Keywords: Sporotrichosis, Sporothrix brasiliensis, Diagnosis, Molecular markers, Nucleotide sequencing

Published in Medical Mycology Case Reports

ISSN: 2211-7539 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General); Science: Biology (General)
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