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Eight Cases in One Residence

H. D. GARRETT, M.D.; J. B. ROBBINS, M.D.

Arch Dermatol. 1960;82(4):570-571.

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Dermatological literature contains numerous reports of persons having acquired sporotrichosis by direct inoculation of the skin while handling vegetation or materials on which Sporotrichum schenckii was present. Pardo-Castello and Trespalacios¹ reported nine cases in Cuba in which injury with vegetation produced a sporotrichotic chancre followed by the lymphangitic type involvement. Brown² cultured S. schenckii from timbers in a South African gold mine, and many cases of sporotrichosis occurred among the miners who pricked their skins on these timbers. Gastineau³ found sphagnum moss as the focus of sporotrichosis among florists. Injury from thorns of the barberry shrub was shown by Foerster⁴ to have produced many cases. Gonzalez⁵ described sporotrichosis as a frequent occupational disease occurring among potters in Mexico.

The purpose of this paper is to present eight cases of sporotrichosis of the primary cutaneous variety occurring among persons living and working in a combination residence . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
El Paso, Texas

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb. 10, 1960.

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