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BCbettycjung.bsky.social

CDC Advanced Molecular Detection @CDC_AMD A veterinary technician in Kansas contracted sporotrichosis after caring for indoor-outdoor cat with ulcerated lesions from a Sporothrix fungal infection. CDC used whole-genome sequencing to identify the Sporothrix species bit.ly/3QJMNvl

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JRjohnrossmd.bsky.social

Cat-transmitted sporotrichosis has become an epidemic disease in Brazil in recent decades for unclear reasons. Social factors and climate change (cf. The Last of Us) have been invoked as possible explanations wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Map of Brazil showing intense transmission of sporotrichosis in Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio de Janiero, Espirito Santo, and Rio Grande del Sul
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Oonisillos.bsky.social

New research article in The Lancet Microbe Emergence of zoonotic sporotrichosis in Brazil: a genomic epidemiology study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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born2.bsky.social

you basically have to just tell yourself “quit being a hypochondriac. this isn’t staph or sporotrichosis. it’s prob just a reaction to soap or something”

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