Atypical Cutaneous Sporotrichosis in an Immunocompetent Adult: Response to Potassium Iodide

Cutaneous sporotrichosis, also known as “Rose Gardener's disease,” caused by dimorphic fungus Sporothrix schenkii, is usually characterized by indolent nodular or nodulo-ulcerative lesions arranged in a linear pattern. We report bizarre nonlinear presentation of Sporotrichosis, in an immunocomp...

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Autores principales: Gandhi, Nikita, Chander, Ram, Jain, Arpita, Sanke, Sarita, Garg, Taru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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E-IJD Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4817472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27057047
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.177776
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author Gandhi, Nikita
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description Cutaneous sporotrichosis, also known as “Rose Gardener's disease,” caused by dimorphic fungus Sporothrix schenkii, is usually characterized by indolent nodular or nodulo-ulcerative lesions arranged in a linear pattern. We report bizarre nonlinear presentation of Sporotrichosis, in an immunocompetent adult occurring after a visit to Amazon rain forest, speculating infection with more virulent species of Sporothrix. The diagnosis was reached with the help of periodic acid-Schiff positive yeast cells and cigar shaped bodies seen in skin biopsy along with the therapeutic response to potassium iodide.
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spelling pubmed-48174722016-04-07 Atypical Cutaneous Sporotrichosis in an Immunocompetent Adult: Response to Potassium Iodide Gandhi, Nikita Chander, Ram Jain, Arpita Sanke, Sarita Garg, Taru Indian J Dermatol E-IJD Case Report Cutaneous sporotrichosis, also known as “Rose Gardener's disease,” caused by dimorphic fungus Sporothrix schenkii, is usually characterized by indolent nodular or nodulo-ulcerative lesions arranged in a linear pattern. We report bizarre nonlinear presentation of Sporotrichosis, in an immunocompetent adult occurring after a visit to Amazon rain forest, speculating infection with more virulent species of Sporothrix. The diagnosis was reached with the help of periodic acid-Schiff positive yeast cells and cigar shaped bodies seen in skin biopsy along with the therapeutic response to potassium iodide. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4817472/ /pubmed/27057047 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.177776 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Atypical Cutaneous Sporotrichosis in an Immunocompetent Adult: Response to Potassium Iodide
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title_full_unstemmed Atypical Cutaneous Sporotrichosis in an Immunocompetent Adult: Response to Potassium Iodide
title_short Atypical Cutaneous Sporotrichosis in an Immunocompetent Adult: Response to Potassium Iodide
title_sort atypical cutaneous sporotrichosis in an immunocompetent adult: response to potassium iodide
topic E-IJD Case Report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.177776
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