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Zoonotic Sporotrichosis Related to Cat Contact: First Case Report from Panama in Central America

A previously healthy 34-year-old man presented with a four-week-old upper arm injury that started with a cat scratch and progressed into painless erythematous nodular ascending lesions in the left upper limb. We made the diagnosis of sporotrichosis based on the epidemiological association of the con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Rios, Margarita E, Suarez, José, Moreno, Jose, Vallee, Jorge, Moreno, Juan Pablo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186711
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2906
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Sumario:A previously healthy 34-year-old man presented with a four-week-old upper arm injury that started with a cat scratch and progressed into painless erythematous nodular ascending lesions in the left upper limb. We made the diagnosis of sporotrichosis based on the epidemiological association of the contact with a cat and culture identification. Sporotrichosis is a mycosis implantation caused by the Sporothrix schenckii complex. We present the first Central American case of sporotrichosis associated with contact with a feline.