Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Jan 2001)

Sporotrichosis: an emergent zoonosis in Rio de Janeiro

  • Barros Mônica Bastos de Lima,
  • Schubach Tânia Maria Pacheco,
  • Gutierrez Galhardo Maria Clara,
  • Schubach Armando de Oliveira,
  • Monteiro Paulo Cezar Fialho,
  • Reis Rosani Santos,
  • Zancopé-Oliveira Rosely Maria,
  • Lazéra Márcia dos Santos,
  • Cuzzi-Maya Tullia,
  • Blanco Tânia Cristina Moita,
  • Marzochi Keyla Belizia Feldman,
  • Wanke Bodo,
  • Valle Antonio Carlos Francesconi do

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 96, no. 6
pp. 777 – 779

Abstract

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During the period from 1987 to 1998, 13 cases of human sporotrichosis were recorded at the Research Center Evandro Chagas Hospital (CPqHEC) in Rio de Janeiro. Two of these patients related scratch by a sick cat. During the subsequent period from July 1998 to July 2000, 66 human, 117 cats and 7 dogs with sporotrichosis were diagnosed at the CPqHEC. Fifty-two humans (78.8%) reported contact with cats with sporotrichosis, and 31 (47%) of them reporting a history of a scratch or bite. This epidemic, unprecedented in the literature, involving cats, dogs and human beings may have started insidiously before 1998.

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