A case of disseminated sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis

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 in Santa Casa hospital of Belo Horizonte, with hyporexia, prostration, fever and disseminated ulcerative lesions, besides anemi...

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Autores principales: Fernandes, Blenda, Caligiorne, Rachel Basques, Coutinho, Dayana Monteiro, Gomes, Renata R., Rocha-Silva, Fabiana, Machado, Amanda Sanchez, Santrer, Emanoelle Fernandes Rutren La, Assunção, Claudia Barbosa, Guimarães, Cássio Ferreira, Laborne, Maria Silvia, Nunes, Mauricio Buzelin, Vicente, Vania A., de Hoog, Sybren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6058009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30046514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.03.006
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Sumario: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 in Santa Casa hospital of Belo Horizonte, 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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