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 SantosPublished 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.
Keyphrases
- bone marrow
- case report
- infectious diseases
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv positive
- hiv infected
- end stage renal disease
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hepatitis c virus
- hiv testing
- mesenchymal stem cells
- hiv aids
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- men who have sex with men
- peritoneal dialysis
- depressive symptoms
- physical activity