Sporotrichosis

Your Path

  • Sporotrichosis

Etiology

  • Fungus

Risk Factors

  • Lives in soil
  • Vegetation
  • Infection via cut when handling dirt

Symptoms

  • Painless skin nodule at site of innoculation
  • Develops over 1 to 12 weeks
  • Increases in size and can ulcerate
  • Sometimes local adenpathy

Physical Exam Findings

  • Nodule at site of inoculation
  • Increases in size and sometime ulcerates over next 1-12 weeks
  • Sometimes regional adenopathy develops