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Review
. 2017 Jan 19;13(1):e1006077.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006077. eCollection 2017 Jan.

Zoonotic Epidemic of Sporotrichosis: Cat to Human Transmission

Isabella Dib Ferreira Gremião  1 , Luisa Helena Monteiro Miranda  1 , Erica Guerino Reis  1 , Anderson Messias Rodrigues  2 , Sandro Antonio Pereira  1
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Zoonotic Epidemic of Sporotrichosis: Cat to Human Transmission

Isabella Dib Ferreira Gremião et al. PLoS Pathog. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1
Fig 1. Feline sporotrichosis cases around the world, 1952–2016.
(A) Since the mid-20th century, feline sporotrichosis has typically occurred in isolated cases and small outbreaks, and only a few reports of zoonotic transmission have been described in the literature. The Southeast Brazil region has the largest absolute number of cases with an overwhelming prevalence of S. brasiliensis during epizootic outbreaks. Outside Brazil, most feline cases are due to the classical agent S. schenckii. (B) Spatiotemporal evolution of feline sporotrichosis cases in Brazil. Over the last two decades (1998–2016), Brazil has experienced a long-lasting outbreak of cat-transmitted sporotrichosis in Rio de Janeiro, with 4,669 cases reported. Cat-borne sporotrichosis due to S. brasiliensis often appears in the form of outbreaks or epidemics within a short period of time. Remarkably, before the 1990s, Rio de Janeiro reported a low number of cases, nearly always unrelated to feline transmission types.
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