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Cat-transmitted sporotrichosis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Authors: | Schubach Armando Schubach Tânia Maria Pacheco Barros Mônica Bastos de Lima Wanke Bodo |
| Affiliation: | Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. armando@ipec.fiocruz.br |
| Abstract: | Sporotrichosis is an emerging zoonosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 1998 to 2003, 497 humans and 1,056 cats with culture-proven sporotrichosis were studied. A total of 421 patients, 67.4% with a history of a scratch or bite, reported contact with cats that had sporotrichosis. |
| Keywords: | Sporothrix schenckii sporotrichosis epidemiology transmission zoonosis veterinary cats dispatch |
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