Infection by a dimorphic fungus Sporothrix schenckii in an immunocompromised patient

Infection

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 289-291

  Wroblewska, M ^a   Swoboda Kopec, E ^a   Kawecki, D ^a   Sawicka Grzelak, A ^a   Stelmach, E ^a   Luczak, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LYMPH VESSEL; MASTECTOMY; SKIN DEFECT; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; ITRACONAZOLE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

EID: 23844496269     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-005-4123-3     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Mackenzie DWR: Subcutaneous mycoses. Sporothrichosis. In: Strickland GT (ed): Hunter's tropical medicine. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia 1984, pp 443-444.
2. Davis BA: Sporotrichosis. Dermatol Clin 1996; 14: 69-76.
3. Kauffman CA, Hajjeh R, Chapman SW: Practice guidelines for the management of patients with sporotrichosis. For the Mycoses Study Group. Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2000; 30: 684-687.
4. Byrd DR, El-Azhary RA, Gibson LE, Roberts GD: Sporotrichosis masquerading as pyoderma gangrenosum: case report and review of 19 cases of sporotrichosis. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venerol 2001; 15: 581-584.
5. Rohatgi PK: Pulmonary sporotrichosis. South Med J 1980; 73: 1611-1617.
6. Fleury RN, Taborda PR, Gupta AK, Fujita MS, Rosa PS, Weckwerth AC, Negrao MS, Bastazini I: Zoonotic sporotrichosis. Transmission to humans by infected domestic cat scratching: report of four cases in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Internat J Dermatol 2001; 40: 318-322.
7. Haddad VJ, Miot HA, Bartoli LD, Cardoso Ade C, de Camargo RM: Localized lymphatic sporotrichosis after fish-induced injury (Tilapia sp.). Med Mycology 2002; 40: 425-427.
8. Hampton DE, Adesina A, Chodosh J: Conjunctival sporotrichosis in the absence of antecedent trauma. Cornea 2002; 21: 831-833.
9. Ellis D: Amphotericin B: spectrum and resistance. J Antimicrob Chemother 2002; 49 (Suppl.1): 1-10.
10. al-Tawfiq JA, Wools KK: Disseminated sporotrichosis and Sporothrix schenckii fungemia as the initial presentation of human immunodeficiency virus infection. Clin Infect Dis 1998; 26: 1403-1406.
11. Gullberg RM, Quintanilla A, Levin ML, Williams J, Phair J: Sporotrichosis: recurrent cutaneous, articular and central nervous system infection in a renal transplant recipient. Rev Infect Dis 1987; 9: 369-375.
12. Tobin EH, Jih WW: Sporotrichoid lymphocutaneous infections: etiology, diagnosis and therapy. Am Family Physician 2001; 63: 326-332.
13. Ghosh A, Chakrabarti A, Hemashettar BM, Maiti PK: In vitro susceptibility pattern of Sporothrix schenckii strains isolated from three centers in India. Indian J Med Res 2001; 113: 214-220.
14. McGinnis MR, Nordoff N, Li RK, Pasarell L, Warnock DW. Sporothrix schenckii sensitivity to voriconazole, itraconazole and amphotericin B. Med Mycol 2001; 39: 369-371.
15. Bonifaz A, Peniche A, Mercadillo P, Saul A: Successful treatment of AIDS-related disseminated cutaneous sporotrichosis with itraconazole. AIDS Patient Care Stds 2001; 15: 603-606.