Feline sporotrichosis: associations between clinical-epidemiological profiles and phenotypic-genotypic characteristics of the etiological agents in the Rio de Janeiro epizootic area

Feline sporotrichosis: associations between clinical-epidemiological profiles and phenotypic-genotypic characteristics of the etiological agents in the Rio de Janeiro epizootic area

BACKGROUND Sporotrichosis is caused by species of the genus Sporothrix. From 1998 to 2015, 4,703 cats were diagnosed at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Even after the description of the Sporothrix species, the characterisation of feline isolates is not performed routinel...

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Main Authors: Jéssica Sepulveda Boechat, Manoel Marques Evangelista Oliveira, Rodrigo Almeida-Paes, Isabella Dib Ferreira Gremião, Ana Caroline de Sá Machado, Raquel de Vasconcelos Carvalhaes Oliveira, Anna Barreto Fernandes Figueiredo, Vanessa Brito de Souza Rabello, Karoline Benevides de Lima Silva, Rosely Maria Zancopé-Oliveira, Tânia Maria Pacheco Schubach, Sandro Antonio Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Subjects:
Sporothrix species
sporotrichosis
cats
phenotypic characterisation
molecular characterisation
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