{"id":545402,"date":"2025-04-15T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=545402"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:33:08","slug":"new-mycosis-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/new-mycosis-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"New mycosis spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_545403\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-545403 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rpf-notas-micose-2024-08-343-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rpf-notas-micose-2024-08-343-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rpf-notas-micose-2024-08-343-800-250x205.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rpf-notas-micose-2024-08-343-800-700x575.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rpf-notas-micose-2024-08-343-800-120x99.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">GREMI\u00c3O, I. D. F. <em>et al<\/em>. Brazilian Journal Of Microbiology. 2020<\/span><em>Sporothrix brasiliensis<\/em> spreads between cats and people<span class=\"media-credits\">GREMI\u00c3O, I. D. F. <em>et al<\/em>. Brazilian Journal Of Microbiology. 2020<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another disease is spreading in Brazil: sporotrichosis, a fungal infection caused by the genus <em>Sporothrix<\/em>, which enters the body through wounds in the skin. Genetic analyses indicate an ongoing epidemic in Brazil, caused mainly by the fungus <em>S. brasiliensis<\/em>. Transmission has occurred from animal to animal and from animal to human. Of the 72 samples of various species of <em>Sporothrix<\/em> examined (collected from 2013 to 2022), 55 were from human sporotrichosis and 17 were from animals, mainly from cats, which are the main transmitters; 67 were from Brazil, three from the US, and two from Colombia. In another study, a group from the Federal University of Rural Pernambuco (UFRPE) and the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo (UNIFESP) identified 1,176 cases of sporotrichosis in cats in the municipalities of Jaboat\u00e3o dos Guararapes, Olinda, and Recife\u2014all in Pernambuco\u2014between 2016 and 2021. According to genetic analysis, the predominant species, <em>S. brasiliensis<\/em>, may have come from Rio de Janeiro. In cats and dogs, the mycosis primarily causes lesions on the face, ears, and paws. In people, the initial wound is similar to an insect bite\u2014it can disappear spontaneously or travel to the lungs, where it can cause coughing, shortness of breath, fever, and painful breathing. Standard treatment is antifungal medication for three to six months (<em>Lancet Microbe<\/em>, March; <em>Mycopathology<\/em>, July 14).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mycosis caused by fungi of the genus <em>Sporothrix<\/em> spreads across Brazil","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[229,260,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-545402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-epidemiology","tag-public-health","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545412,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545402\/revisions\/545412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545402"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=545402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}