SPOROTRICHOSIS, A PROTEAN DISEASE: WITH REPORT OF A DISSEMINATED SUBCUTANEOUS GUMMATOUS CASE OF THE DISEASE

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Abstract
Sporotrichosis is a disease to be reckoned with on occasion by physicians in every branch of medicine. Sporotrichum schenckii and S. beurmanni are the usual etiological agents. All spp. are frequent saprophytes, most often on vegetable material, but also at times on humans and on other animals. The disease probably usually develops because of a lessened resistance of the host at the time of inoculation. Manifestations of the disease are polymorphous, this feature often being of diagnostic import especially as regards lesions of the skin. Although sporotrichosis is usually divided, for purposes of description, into the cutaneous and systemic types, it is worthy of note that a preponderance of all cases demonstrates involvement of the integument to a variable degree, and that demonstrable visceral lesions are most unusual. Of all the deep mycoses, sportrichosis is the only one for which there exists a specific therapeutic agent. An unusual case of multiple, disseminated, subcutaneous, gummatous sporotrichosis, with probable secondary osseous lesions is reported.

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