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MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ
Volume 96, Issue 6, Pages 777-779Publisher
FUNDACO OSWALDO CRUZ
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762001000600006
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Sporothrix schenckii; sporotrichosis; emergent zoonosis; Rio de Janeiro; Brazil
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During the period from 1987 to 1998, 13 cases of human sporotrichosis were recorded at the Research Center Evandro Chagas Hospital (CpqHEC) in Rio de Janeiro. Two of these patients related scratch by a sick cat. During the subsequent period from July 1998 to July 2000, 66 human, 117 cats and 7 dogs with sporotrichosis were diagnosed at the CPqHEC Fifty-two humans (78.8%) reported contact with cats with sporotrichosis, and 31 (47%) of them reporting a history of a scratch or bite. This epidemic, unprecedented in the literature, involving cats, dogs and human beings may have started insidiously before 1998.
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