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Sporotrichosis in Animals: Zoonotic Transmission

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Sporotrichosis

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Sporotrichosis is regarded as an emergent zoonosis, particularly in Brazil, where cats are important reservoirs. The disease is reported in different animal species, including cats, dogs, armadillos, horses, mules, donkeys, chimpanzee, cattle, goats, pigs, mice, rats, hamsters, dolphin, foxes, camels, and fowl. In this chapter we describe the clinical characteristics of the disease in felines and canines as well as laboratory tools for diagnosis, and finally address some considerations for public health.

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We thank the staff of Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia (INI)/Fiocruz, Brazil, especially Luisa Helena Monteiro de Miranda, Tânia Maria Pacheco Schubach and Fabiano Borges Figueiredo, for reviewing the text and processing of the figures. We thank Cintia de Moraes Borba from Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, and Manoel Marques Evangelista de Oliveira from INI, for reviewing the text.

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Pereira, S.A., Gremião, I.D.F., Menezes, R.C. (2015). Sporotrichosis in Animals: Zoonotic Transmission. In: Zeppone Carlos, I. (eds) Sporotrichosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11912-0_6

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