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SUBMITTER: Silva-Vergara ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3284366 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20120301 3
Disseminated sporotrichosis occurs in individuals with impaired cellular immunity, such as in cases of neoplasia, transplantation, diabetes, and especially, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. This report presents a 32-year-old Brazilian human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patient who developed a protracted condition of disseminated sporotrichosis with endocarditis, bilateral endophthalmitis, and lymphatic involvement. He needed cardiac surgery to replace the mitral valve. Sporothrix bra ...[more]