ABSTRACT
Abstract In recent decades, an alarming increase in the number of sporotrichosis cases has been reported in southern and southeastern Brazil, especially in the state of Rio de Janeiro, has been considered a long-term hyperendemic condition associated with feline transmission. According to phenotypic classifications, the Sporothrix species recovered from cats were classified as S. brasiliensis in 96.5% of the studied cases. This finding has also been demonstrated in humans, which confirms the zoonotic transmission associated with this predominant species in Brazil. The zoonotic transmission of the fungus and its important virulence in the context of the hyperendemic situation in Rio de Janeiro have changed the approach to the disease, which in its classic form was restricted to certain professional groups and very specific regions in the Brazilian territory, into a public health challenge of scientific interest. Its atypical manifestations and hypersensitivity reactions are increasingly frequent, constituting a new sporotrichosis aspect, which deserves attention from the medical community, as well as from other health professionals.
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Humans , Animals , Cats , Sporotrichosis/epidemiology , Sporothrix , Cat Diseases/epidemiology , Hypersensitivity , Brazil/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Se ralizó un estudio transversal para determinar la prevalencia de las enfermedades piógenicas de la piel en el medio rural, su asociación a factores de riesgo y costo por atención. Se encuestaron un total de 211 casas con una población de 1,387 personas; se encontró una prevalencia del 6 por ciento de piodermias; sobre los factores de riesgo estudiados, se encontró que una persona que convive con otros pacientes con esta dermatosis tiene más de seis vece el riesgo de tener la enfermedad comparada con otra que no refirió este antecente (RR 6.6, RD 0.12 Xmh 5.6); se utilizó un modelo de regresión logística donde se incluyeron varios factores de manera simultánea
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Humans , Community Health Services/economics , Community-Acquired Infections/economics , Community-Acquired Infections/epidemiology , Health Care Economics and Organizations , Pyoderma/economics , Pyoderma/epidemiology , Rural PopulationABSTRACT
18 girls from an orphanage (Orfanato Santo Antônio) in Niterói presented tinea capitis due to Trichophyton tonsurans (15 cases-83.3% ) and Microsporum canis (3 cases-26.7% ). Comments are made about clinical, mycological and therapeutic aspects of this microepidemic