The sporotrichosis is one subcutaneous mycosis, produced by the dimorphic fungi Sporothrix schenckii. The present study describes the occurrence of feline sporotrichosis in Pelotas city, RS, Brazil. The disease was transmitted to an attendAnt of the veterinary clinic. The transmission was caused by scratching of the infected animal. The feline showed deformity of the nasal plane and cutaneous lesions, and the attendAnt presented one single ulcerated lesion on the dorsal left metacarpus. The mycological diagnostic was made by eschaps and/or exsudate from the feline and the attendAnt. The samples were cultivated on agar Sabouraud dextrose with chloramphenicol at 25 and 37°C during ten days. As S. schenckii was isolated from the samples, the diagnostic of disseminated cutaneous sporotrichosis by the feline and cutaneous localized sporotrichosis by the clinician, was confirmed. This note has the aim to alert small animals clinicians for the existence of sporotrichosis, and the high transmission risk by bites and/or scratch of infected animals.
Sporothrix schenckii; felines; mycoses; scratching; zoonosis