A case of disseminated sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis

Publication date: Available online 21 March 2018
Source:Medical Mycology Case Reports
Author(s): Rachel Basques Caligiorne, Blenda Fernandes, Dayana Monteiro Coutinho, Renata R. Gomes, Amanda Sanchez Machado, Emanoelle Fernandes Rutren La Santrer, Maria Silvia Laborne, Mauricio Buzelin Nunes, Vania A. Vicente, Sybren de Hoog
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 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.



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