Sporotrichosis history and symptoms
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Forms and symptoms
- Cutaneous or skin sporotrichosis
- This is the most common form of this disease. Symptoms of this form include nodular lesions or bumps in the skin, at the point of entry and also along lymph nodes and vessels. The lesion starts off small and painless, and ranges in color from pink to purple. Left untreated, the lesion becomes larger and look similar to a boil and more lesions will appear, until a chronic ulcer develops.
- Usually, cutaneous sporotrichosis lesions occur in the finger, hand, and arm.
- Pulmonary sporotrichosis
- This rare form of the disease occur when S. schenckii spores are inhaled. Symptoms of pulmonary sporotrichosis include productive coughing, nodules and cavitations of the lungs, fibrosis, and swollen hilar lymph nodes. Patients with this form of sporotrichosis are susceptible to developing tuberculosis and pneumonia
- Disseminated sporotrichosis
- When the infection spreads from the primary site to secondary sites in the body, the disease develops into a rare and critical form called disseminated sporotrichosis. The infection can spread to joints and bones (called osteoarticular sporotrichosis) as well as the central nervous system and the brain (called sporotrichosis meningitis).
- The symptoms of disseminated sporotrichosis include weight loss, anorexia, and appearance of bony lesions.