Familial occurrence of zoonotic sporotrichosis Ocorrência familiar de esporotricose zoonótica

Sporotrichosis is a suba cu te or chro nic myco sis cau sed by the dimor phic fun gus Sporothrix schenc kii which is ende mic in Brazil and is trans mit ted pri ma rily through trau ma tic ino cu la tion of its cau sa ti ve agent into the skin. The zoo no tic trans mis sion, espe cially from infec ted cats, has been demons tra ted in seve ral reports and case series. We pre sent simul ta neous occur ren ce of the disea se in three mem bers of the same family by scrat ches from an infec ted domes tic cat. Two patients deve lo ped the lympho cu ta neous form and one only deve lo ped the fixed cuta neous form. Two patients were suc cess fully trea ted with satu ra ted solu tion of potas sium iodi de; howe ver, the third case repor ted side effects and had his the rapy subs ti tu ted for itra co na zo le, with reso lu tion of his lesions.