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- Title
A 27-Year-Old Severely Immunosuppressed Female with Misleading Clinical Features of Disseminated Cutaneous Sporotrichosis.
- Authors
Patel, Atiyah; Mudenda, Victor; Lakhi, Shabir; Ngalamika, Owen
- Abstract
Sporotrichosis is a subacute or chronic granulomatous mycosis caused by fungus of the Sporothrix schenckii complex. It is considered to be a rare condition in most parts of the world. It mostly causes cutaneous infection but can also cause multisystemic disease. Unlike most deep cutaneous mycoses which have a primary pulmonary focus, it is usually caused by direct inoculation of the fungus into the skin causing a classical linear, lymphocutaneous nodular eruption. However, atypical presentations of the condition can occur especially in immunosuppressed individuals. We report the case of a severely immunosuppressed female who presented with disseminated cutaneous sporotrichosis which was initially diagnosed and treated as disseminated cutaneous Kaposi’s sarcoma.
- Subjects
SPOROTRICHOSIS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED patients; CHRONIC granulomatous disease; DERMATOMYCOSES; MULTIPLE system atrophy; KAPOSI'S sarcoma
- Publication
Case Reports in Dermatological Medicine, 2016, p1
- ISSN
2090-6463
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1155/2016/9403690