Esporotricosis diagnosticada por el laboratorio

Abstract

Forty cases of sporotrichosis have been diagnosed from 1976 to 1989 at the Mycology Laboratory of the Instituto Nacional de Salud. The disease was present in patients 4 to 52 years old, and 35 of 40 (87.5%) were males. Fixed cutaneous and lymphocutaneous forms were predominant, 45% and 42.5% respectively. The diagnosis was established by isolation of Sporothrix schenckii in 92% of the cases. Two patients were diagnosed using direct fluorescence, skin test and tube agglutination.