Bove-Sevilla PM, Mayorga-Rodríguez J, Hernández-Hernández O

Language: Spanish
References: 13
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ABSTRACT

Sporotrichosis is the most common subcutaneous mycosis in Mexico which is caused by Sporothrix schenckii and in some cases it has been considered as a zoonosis. A 43-year-old women who developed ulcerated nodules in her forearm after a scratch of her cat which also has lesions in his body, is reported. The patient had a clinic and mycological diagnosis of lymphocutaneous sporothrichosis. Itraconazol 200 mg/daily during 3 months was given with complete remission.

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