Sporotrichosis: an update on epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, laboratory and clinical therapeutics

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia - Tập 92 Số 5 - Trang 606-620 - 2017
Rosane Orofino‐Costa1, Priscila Marques de Macedo2, Anderson Messias Rodrigues3, Andréa Reis Bernardes‐Engemann1
1Dermatology Department, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FCM-UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.Medical Mycology Laboratory, Dermatology Department, Hospital Universitario Pedro Ernesto, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
2Infectious Dermatology Clinical Research Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (INI/Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
3Laboratory of Emerging Fungal Pathogen, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), SP, Brazil.

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