TY - JOUR AU - Schubach, Armando AU - Schubach, Tânia Maria Pacheco AU - Barros, Mônica Bastos de Lima AU - Wanke, Bodo T1 - Cat-transmitted Sporotrichosis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 12 SP - 1952 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Sporotrichosis is an emerging zoonosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 1998 to 2003, 497 humans and 1,056 cats with culture-proven sporotrichosis were studied. A total of 421 patients, 67.4% with a history of a scratch or bite, reported contact with cats that had sporotrichosis. KW - Sporothrix schenckii KW - sporotrichosis KW - epidemiology KW - transmission KW - zoonosis KW - veterinary KW - cats KW - dispatch KW - Brazil DO - 10.3201/eid1112.040891 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/12/04-0891_article ER - End of Reference