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Cat-transmitted Sporotrichosis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005
Sporotrichosis is an emerging zoonosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 1998 to 2003, 497 humans and 1,056 cats with culture-proven sporotrichosis were studied. A total of 421 patients, 67.4% with a history of a scratch or bite, reported contact with cats
Armando Schubach, Tânia Maria Pacheco Schubach, Mônica Bastos de Lima Barros, Bodo Wanke   +3 more
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The first three reported cases of Sporothrix brasiliensis cat-transmitted sporotrichosis outside South America [PDF]

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2023
An epidemic of cat-transmitted sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis has emerged as a major public health threat in Brazil in recent decades.
James R. Barnacle, Yimmy J. Chow, Andrew M. Borman, Steven Wyllie, Valentin Dominguez, Katherine Russell, Helen Roberts, Darius Armstrong-James, Ashley M. Whittington   +8 more
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The spread of cat-transmitted sporotrichosis due to Sporothrix brasiliensis in Brazil towards the Northeast region. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
BackgroundSporotrichosis is a worldwide subcutaneous mycosis caused by Sporothrix spp. In the past, this infection was associated with armadillo hunting, horticulturists, miners, and gardeners, being considered an implantation mycosis acquired by plant ...
Aurélio de Oliveira Bento, Alexandre Soares de Sena Costa, Soraia Lopes Lima, Manoella do Monte Alves, Analy Salles de Azevedo Melo, Anderson Messias Rodrigues, Walicyranison Plinio da Silva-Rocha, Eveline Pipolo Milan, Guilherme Maranhão Chaves   +8 more
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One Health Education for Future Physicians: A Case Report of Cat-Transmitted Sporotrichosis. [PDF]

Open Forum Infect Dis, 2020
Abstract A healthy 35-year-old Brazilian woman presented with persistent redness, swelling, and multiple wounds on the hand 2 weeks after a cat bite in her home country. She was treated twice with amoxicillin-clavulanate but failed to demonstrate improvement.
Kaadan MI, Dennis M, Desai N, Yadavalli G, Lederer P.   +4 more
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Cat-transmitted disseminated cutaneous sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis in a new endemic area: Case series in the northeast of Brazil [PDF]

JAAD Case Reports, 2020
Sporotrichosis is a subcutaneous mycosis caused by thermodimorphic fungi of Sporothrix schenckii complex and is usually transmitted as a result of traumatic inoculation of these microorganisms; infection can produce a number of manifestations. 1,2 In Brazil, sporotrichosis has been a major public health issue, with multiple outbreaks occurring ...
Carlos Alberto Tiburcio Valeriano, MSc, Cláudia Elise Ferraz, MD, PhD, Manoel Marques Evangelista Oliveira, PhD, Cícero Pinheiro Inácio, PhD, Ertenia Paiva de Oliveira, MSc, Armando Marsden Lacerda, PhD, Rejane Pereira Neves, PhD, Reginaldo Gonçalves de Lima-Neto, PhD   +7 more
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Temporal and spatial distribution of sporotrichosis in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area, Brazil: a comparison between human and animal cases (2013-2020) [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Cat-transmitted sporotrichosis is currently hyperendemic in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area, Brazil. Despite the zoonotic context, surveillance is fragmented, with human and animal contagion being assessed separately.
Victória Catharina Dedavid Ferreira, Anna Barreto Fernandes Figueiredo, Mônica de Avelar Figueiredo Mafra Magalhães, Sandro Antonio Pereira, Wagner Tassinari   +4 more
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A lateral flow assay for the immunodiagnosis of human cat-transmitted sporotrichosis. [PDF]

Mycoses, 2022
AbstractBackgroundCat‐transmitted sporotrichosis (CTS) caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis has emerged as an important zoonosis in Brazil and neighbouring countries.ObjectivesEvaluate the performance of a lateral flow assay (LFA) for the detection of anti‐Sporothrix antibodies in human sera.MethodsA LFA for the detection of anti‐Sporothrix antibodies ...
Cognialli R, Bloss K, Weiss I, Caceres DH, Davis R, Queiroz-Telles F.   +5 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

P138 A decade of cat-transmitted sporotrichosis (CTS) in a tertiary hospital from Curitiba, southern Brazil (2011-21) [PDF]

Med Mycol, 2022
Abstract Poster session 2, September 22, 2022, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM   Objectives This study aims to report the evolution of cat-transmitted sporotrichosis (CTS) and map the distribution of these cases within a tertiary hospital in ...
Cognialli, Regielly, Daros, Fernanda, Ferreira, Diésica, Gabriel, Adriana, Lopuch, Lili, Cavassin, Francelise, Lustosa, Bruno, Vicente, Vânia, Breda, Giovanni, Santos-Weiss, Izabella, Queiroz-Telles, Flávio   +10 more
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Sporothrix brasiliensis Treatment Failure without Initial Elevated Itraconazole MICs in Felids at Border of Brazil [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Cat-transmitted sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis is an emerging zoonosis in Latin America. Because treatment of feline sporotrichosis is often not effective, we sought to determine whether treatment failure results from S.
Carolina Melchior do Prado, Bram Spruijtenburg, Emanuel Razzolini, Luciana Chiyo, Carlos Santi, Caroline Amaral Martins, Gabriela Santacruz, Nancy Segovia, José Pereira Brunelli, Regielly Caroline Raimundo Cognialli, Jacques F. Meis, Vânia Aparecida Vicente, Theun de Groot, Eelco F.J. Meijer, Flávio Queiroz-Telles   +14 more
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Genetic diversity and molecular evolution of 3-carboxymuconate cyclase (Gp60–70), the major antigen in pathogenic Sporothrix species [PDF]

Mycology
Sporotrichosis, a neglected tropical disease caused by Sporothrix species, is a growing concern, particularly due to the emergence of highly virulent, cat-transmitted S. brasiliensis.
Jamile Ambrósio de Carvalho, Thiago Costa Machado, Alexandre Augusto Sasaki, Fabian Glaser, Primavera Alvarado, Alexandro Bonifaz, Sarah Santos Gonçalves, Isabella Dib Gremião, Sandro Antonio Pereira, Olga Fischman Gompertz, Zoilo Pires de Camargo, Anderson Messias Rodrigues   +11 more
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