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Epidemiology of sporotrichosis in Latin America

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Applying the concept of ‘epidemiological chain’, it is successively analyzed: the etiologic agent, Sporothrix schenckii and its natural reservoirs (sources of infection); the different ways that infecting particles may reach man (mechanisms of infection); the susceptible population and the population at risk; the incidence and distribution by sex and age in countries of Latin America; the prevalence of the disease according to clinical cases in dermatological clinics and the variation of incidence rates in some countries with time; the influence of the environment mainly climatic conditions on the geographic distribution of the disease.

Finally, according to Mackinnon's hypothesis, the climate could have a determining role on the predominance of a certain clinical form on another in different countries.

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    Ismael A. Conti Díaz

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Díaz, I.A.C. Epidemiology of sporotrichosis in Latin America. Mycopathologia 108, 113–116 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00436061

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