tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Accidental Jorge Lobo's disease in a worker dealing with Lacazia loboi infected mice: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Accidental Jorge Lobo's disease in a worker dealing with Lacazia loboi infected mice: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Accidental Jorge Lobo s disease in a worker dealing with Lacazia loboi infected mice a case report Patricia Sammarco Rosa 1 Cleverson Teixeira Soares1 Andréa de Faria Fernandes Belone1 Raquel Vilela2 Somei Ura1 Milton Cury Filho1 and Leonel Mendoza2 Address 1Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima Bauru SP Brazil and 2Biomedical Diagnostic Laboratory Program Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University East Lansing MI USA Email Patrícia Sammarco Rosa - prosa@ Cleverson Teixeira Soares - Andréa de Faria Fernandes Belone - abelone@ Raquel Vilela - raquelvilela27@ Somei Ura - sura@ Milton Cury Filho - curyy@ Leonel Mendoza - leonelmendoz9@ Corresponding author Published 16 February 2009 Received 15 August 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 67 doi 1752-1947-3-67 Accepted 16 February 2009 This article is available from http content 3 l 67 2009 Rosa et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Introduction Jorge Lobo s disease Lacaziosis is a subcutaneous infection of humans living in the Amazon region of Latin America and in dolphins inhabiting the east coastal areas of the United States. The disease mainly affects people from rural areas living or working in close contact with vegetation and aquatic environments. Most patients refer having developed lesions after accidental trauma with plant thorns or insect bites. Inter-human transmission has never been confirmed suggesting that Lacazia loboi is acquired from environmental .