Sporotrichosis, a disease rarely reported from Turkey, and an overview of Turkish literature

Abstract

Sporothrix schenckii causes clinical cutaneous forms consisting of lymphangitic, localised, disseminated or extracutaneous forms of sporotrichosis. Cutaneous form caused by the agent entering the body through the skin after trauma is the most frequently seen sporotrichosis form and it progresses in the form of either nodular lymphangitic lesions or localised (fix) lesions (da Rosa AC et al., J Am Acad Dermatol 2005; 52: 451–9; Schamroth JM, Grieve TP, Kellen P. Int J Dermatol 1988; 27: 28–30). Causative agent entering the body through skin causes erythematous, ulcerative or verrucous nodules and lesions generally progress to nodular lymphangitic cutaneous sporotrichosis (Kwon-Chung KJ, Bennett JE. Medical Mycology, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia–London, 1992: 707–29). Lymphangitic sporotrichosis (nodular lymphangitic cutaneous sporotrichosis) accounts for 70–80% of the total number of the cases (Vismer HF, Hull PR. Mycopathologia 1997; 137: 137–43). The case presented in this paper is that of patient with a sporotrichosis in nodular lymphangitic cutaneous form which developed after the prick of a thorn in hand.