Sporotrichosis: an emerging neglected opportunistic infection in HIV-infected patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
| Autor: | Dayvison Francis Saraiva Freitas, Antonio Carlos Francesconi do Valle, Margarete Bernardo Tavares da Silva, Dayse Pereira Campos, Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Rogerio Valls de Souza, Valdiléa Gonçalves Veloso, Rosely Maria Zancopé-Oliveira, Francisco Inácio Bastos, Maria Clara Gutierrez Galhardo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 8, Iss 8, p e3110 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1935-2727 1935-2735 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003110 |
| Popis: | Sporotrichosis associated with zoonotic transmission remains a relevant public health problem in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, affecting a large at-risk population, which includes HIV-infected individuals. We assessed patients co-infected by Sporothrix spp. and HIV over time in the context of an unabated sporotrichosis epidemic. A retrospective cohort retrieved information from a National reference institute for infectious diseases regarding 48 patients with sporotrichosis-HIV co-infection (group 1) as well as 3,570 patients with sporotrichosis (group 2), from 1987 through March 2013. Most patients from group 1 were male (68.8%), whereas women were predominant in group 2 (69.1%; p |
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