Sporotrichosis in Peru: Description of an Area of Hyperendemicity

• DOI: 10.1086/313607
• Publication Date: 2002-07-26T18:58:36Z
• Authors: P. G. Pappas; I. Tellez; A. E. Deep; D. Nolasco; W. Holgado; B. Bustamante
• Keywords: Male; 0301 basic medicine; Antifungal Agents; Adolescent; Endemic Diseases; Incidence; Sporothrix; Infant, Newborn; Potassium Iodide; Infant; Naphthalenes; Sporotrichosis; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; Child, Preschool; Face; Peru; Humans; Female; Child; Terbinafine; Retrospective Studies; Skin

Sporotrichosis is a sporadic and rare mycotic infection in most of the developed world. In many parts developing world, sporotrichosis much more commonly recognized, but epidemiological data are generally lacking from these regions. We report epidemiological, clinical, treatment 238 cases culture-proven occurring relatively remote area south central highlands Peru that were retrospectively collected during 1995–1997. Most (60%) occurred children aged ≤14 years, affected anatomic site was face. Disease clinically confined to skin subcutaneous tissue all patients. The incidence this region ranged 48 60 per 100,000 persons highest among 7–14 approaching 1 case 1000 persons. significant mycosis rural Peru, with an exceeding those other invasive mycoses individuals without human immunodeficiency virus infection.