Author(s)

Eder R. Juárez-Durán¹, Sabrina Escandón-Pérez², Fritz Cajuste-Sequeira³, Luis M. Sánchez-Navarro⁴, Carlos A. Barrera-Ochoa⁵, Rigoberto Hernández-Castro⁶, Roberto Arenas^1*

¹General Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico.
²ángeles Lomas Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico.
³La Habana University, Havana, Cuba.
⁴Dermatologist, General Hospital, Oaxaca, Mexico.
⁵General Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico.
⁶Pathogen Ecology Department, General Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico.

Sporotrichosis is a subcutaneous mycosis caused by the Sporothrix schenckii complex. It has three classic clinical variants: fixed, lymphangitic, and systemic. Treatment in most cases has been itraconazole or potassium iodide. The aim of this paper is to communicate an unusual relapsing case treated with IK. We report a 73-year-old woman with lymphangitic sporotrichosis, adequate response to treatment with potassium iodide, and recurrence 15 months after. A molecular test was performed through the amplification of a 331 bp fragment of the calmodulin gene. In both infections, the same specie was isolated. The effects of potassium iodide are briefly discussed, and we conclude that the same treatment can be prescribed, if no side effects are observed.

Sporotrichosis, Lymphangitic Sporotrichosis, Sporothrix schenckii, Recurrence, Potassium Iodide

Juárez-Durán, E. , Escandón-Pérez, S. , Cajuste-Sequeira, F. , Sánchez-Navarro, L. , Barrera-Ochoa, C. , Hernández-Castro, R. and Arenas, R. (2022) Limphocutaneous Sporotrichosis Due to Sporothrix schenckii var schenckii: A Relapsing Case after Treatment with Potassium Iodide in Elderly. Advances in Microbiology, 12, 192-197. doi: 10.4236/aim.2022.124015.