Abstract
Sporotrichosis is a fungal infection that mainly affects the subcutaneous tissue and its incidence has been increasing drastically in Brazil for about 20 years. The disease is caused by species of the pathogenic clade of the genus Sporothrix (Sporothrix schenckii sensu stricto, Sporothrix brasiliensis, Sporothrix globosa and Sporothrix luriei) that present different profiles of geographic…