A case of disseminated sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis

Med Mycol Case Rep. 2018 Mar 21:21:34-36. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.03.006. eCollection 2018 Sep.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Diagnosis; Molecular markers; Nucleotide sequencing; Sporothrix brasiliensis; Sporotrichosis.