Implementation of an Animal Sporotrichosis Surveillance and Control Program, Southeastern Brazil

Abstract

We report the implementation of an animal sporotrichosis surveillance and control program that evaluates strategies to identify suspected and infected cats in a municipality in southeastern Brazil. All adopted measures reinforced the program, although strategies had different abilities to detect the presence of infection.

Keywords

• Sporothrix sp.
• fungi
• sporotrichosis
• animal surveillance and control program
• cats
• public health