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Review
. 2021 Mar;52(1):107-124.
doi: 10.1007/s42770-020-00365-3. Epub 2020 Sep 29.

Guideline for the management of feline sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis and literature revision

Isabella Dib Ferreira Gremião  1 , Elisabeth Martins da Silva da Rocha  2 , Hildebrando Montenegro  3 , Aroldo José Borges Carneiro  4   5 , Melissa Orzechowski Xavier  6 , Marconi Rodrigues de Farias  7 , Fabiana Monti  7 , Wilson Mansho  8 , Romeika Herminia de Macedo Assunção Pereira  9 , Sandro Antonio Pereira  10 , Leila M Lopes-Bezerra  11
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Guideline for the management of feline sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis and literature revision

Isabella Dib Ferreira Gremião et al. Braz J Microbiol. 2021 Mar.

Abstract

We herein present a Brazilian guideline for the management of feline sporotrichosis, a mycosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis. This guideline is an effort of a national technical group organized by the Working Group on Sporothrix and Sporotrichosis of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM). This publication intends to provide information on clinical-epidemiological aspects of this zoonosis, as well as a literature revision. Moreover, it gives some practical information on diagnosis and treatment of feline sporotrichosis. It also contains information that can be helpful for the prevention and control of S. brasiliensis transmission.

Keywords: Cat; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Guideline; S. brasiliensis; Sporotrichosis; Treatment.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Cat with sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis showing multiple ulcerated skin lesions on the head
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Cat with sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis showing a tumor-like lesion on the nasal region
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Macromorphology of the colonies of S. brasiliensis (strain IPEC872), cultivated in PDA medium for 21 days at 30 °C
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Impression smear of a skin lesion from a cat with sporotrichosis showing numerous cigar-shaped or oval yeast-like cells within macrophages and extracellular medium. The staining method used was the Quick Panoptic stain
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Histological section from a skin lesion from cat with sporotrichosis stained by Grocott Methenamine Silver (GMS). Numerous dark-brown Sporothrix spp. yeast-like cells are observed
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a Cat with sporotrichosis caused by S. brasiliensis presenting an ulcerated lesion on the nasal region before antifungal treatment. b The clinical cure was achieved after 14 weeks of itraconazole (100 mg/24 h) and potassium iodide (2.5 mg/kg/24 h) therapy
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Algorithm for the treatment of feline sporotrichosis
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The One Health approach for prevention and control of sporotrichosis
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