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Cat-transmitted Sporotrichosis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Armando O. Schubach, Tânia Maria Pacheco Schubach, Mônica Bastos de Lima Barros, Bodo Wanke

Emerging infectious diseases · 2005 · 89 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

Sporotrichosis is an emerging zoonosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 1998 to 2003, 497 humans and 1,056 cats with culture-proven sporotrichosis were studied. A total of 421 patients, 67.4% with a history of a scratch or bite, reported contact with cats that had sporotrichosis.

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Mônica Bastos de Lima Barros, Armando de Oliveira Schubach, Antônio Carlos Francesconi do Valle et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2004 · 322 citations · Full text

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Evaluation of an epidemic of sporotrichosis in cats: 347 cases (1998–2001)

T. M. P. Schubach, Armando de Oliveira Schubach, Thais Okamoto et al. · Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association · 2004 · 237 citations

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Isolation and characterization of Sporothrix schenckii from clinical and environmental sources associated with the largest U.S. epidemic of sporotrichosis

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Deep mycotic infections in cats

CWH Davies, G.C. Troy · Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association · 1996 · 159 citations

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Sporothrix schenckii isolated fromdomestic cats with and without sporotrichosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tânia Maria Pacheco Schubach, Armando de Oliveira Schubach, Rosani Santos Reis et al. · Mycopathologia · 2002 · 96 citations

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