Unsuspected sporotrichosis in childhood

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2001 Apr;20(4):442-5. doi: 10.1097/00006454-200104000-00015.

Abstract

We report 10 prepubertal girls with sporotrichosis who were misdiagnosed because they had solitary ulcerative skin nodules, rather than a "sporotrichoid" pattern of multiple linear nodules. All had positive cultures for Sporothrix schenckii. We urge clinicians to consider sporotrichosis in the differential diagnosis of a solitary skin nodule.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diagnostic Errors
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Insect Bites and Stings / diagnosis
  • Skin Diseases, Infectious / diagnosis
  • Skin Ulcer / diagnosis*
  • Sporotrichosis / diagnosis*
  • Tinea / diagnosis