Sporotrichosis: An experience in Medellin, Colombia

Authors

  • Ana Mesa Arango Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia
  • Miryam Alatorre-Rosas Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33885/sf.2000.3.895

Keywords:

Sporotrichosis, sporotrichine, Sporothrix schenckii

Abstract

A total of 516 patients
having clinical suspicion of sporotrichosis were studied. Cultures were positive in 142 (27.5%) patients, and four of them
presented association with other infectious agents; 342 cases (66.9%) were negative, 27 (5.2%) showed other mycoses, and
two (0.4%) had leishmaniosis. The fixed fonn of the disease was predominant in 103 cases (72.5%). The upper limbs were
the most affected (78 cases). This disease had its highest ¡ncidence in farm workers (43 cases; 30.3%), males (96 cases;
67.6%) and adults (96 cases; 67.6%). A total of 72 patients (50.7%) showed no apparent trauma. Sporotrichin was applied
to 120 of the 142 patients with sporotrichosis and 103 (85.8%) cases tested positive. On the other hand, 90.5% of the
patients without mycoses tested negative and 77.8% of those had mycoses different from sporotrichosis. The test was
negative in 90.5% of the patients without mycoses and in 77.8% on the patients with a mycoses different from
sporotrichosis.

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Mesa Arango, A., & Alatorre-Rosas, M. (2016). Sporotrichosis: An experience in Medellin, Colombia. Scientia Fungorum, 3(16), 11–16. https://doi.org/10.33885/sf.2000.3.895

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No. 16 (2000): RMM núm. 16 2000

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