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Late Diagnosis of Disseminated Sporothrix brasiliensis Infection with Bone Marrow Involvement in an HIV-Negative Patient.

Vanessa Caroline Randi MagalhãesSalene Angelini ColomboGustavo José Cota FreitasAlexandre Sampaio MouraFlávia Cardoso Lopez VieiraAna Cláudia LyonMaria Isabel AzevedoNalu Teixeira de Aguiar PeresDaniel de Assis Santos
Published in: Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
Sporotrichosis is a fungal disease that causes symptoms similar to those of other infectious and non-infectious diseases, making diagnosis difficult and challenging. Here, we report a case of an HIV-negative patient presenting disseminated sporotrichosis with widespread cutaneous lesions mimicking pyoderma gangrenosum, with bone marrow infection, pancytopenia, and hemophagocytic syndrome. However, all the clinical manifestations and a bacterial coinfection delayed the request for a fungal diagnosis. Therefore, sporotrichosis should always be investigated in patients from endemic areas presenting with widespread cutaneous lesions associated with pancytopenia.
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