Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2005)

Cat-transmitted Sporotrichosis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Armando Schubach,
  • Tânia Maria Pacheco Schubach,
  • Mônica Bastos de Lima Barros,
  • Bodo Wanke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1112.040891
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 12
pp. 1952 – 1954

Abstract

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Sporotrichosis is an emerging zoonosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 1998 to 2003, 497 humans and 1,056 cats with culture-proven sporotrichosis were studied. A total of 421 patients, 67.4% with a history of a scratch or bite, reported contact with cats that had sporotrichosis.

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