A malar rash from inner Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Walter de Araujo Eyer-Silva; Marcelo Costa Velho Mendes de Azevedo; Guilherme Almeida Rosa da Silva; Rogério Neves-Motta

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2018.04.005

A malar rash from inner Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

IDCases. 2018 Apr 5:12:99-100. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2018.04.005. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Walter de Araujo Eyer-Silva¹, Marcelo Costa Velho Mendes de Azevedo¹, Guilherme Almeida Rosa da Silva¹, Rogério Neves-Motta¹

Affiliation

¹ Hospital Universitário Gaffrée e Guinle, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Abstract

A 49-year-old previously healthy woman from Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, presented with a right malar rash that started as a tiny pustule and progressed to an ulcerated papulonodular lesion within ten weeks. A presumptive diagnosis of zoonotic sporotrichosis was made based on excellent response to treatment and epidemiological linkage with a diseased cat.

Keywords: Rio de Janeiro; Sporotrichosis; Subcutaneous mycosis; Zoonotic infection.