The first symptom of cutaneous (skin) sporotrichosis is usually a small, painless bump that can develop any time from 1 to 12 weeks after exposure to the fungus.
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Sporotrichosis usually affects the skin or tissues underneath the skin. Contact your healthcare provider if you have symptoms that you think are related to sporotrichosis. The symptoms of sporotrichosis depend on where the fungus is growing in the body. This form of sporotrichosis usually affects people with health problems or who take medicines that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness, such as people living with HIV ( see Risk & Prevention). Disseminated sporotrichosis occurs when the infection spreads to another part of the body, such as bones, joints, or central nervous system.Pulmonary (lung) sporotrichosis is rare but can happen after someone breathes in fungal spores from the environment.It usually occurs on a person’s hand or the arm after touching contaminated plant matter. Cutaneous (skin) sporotrichosis is the most common form of the infection.Skin on the hands or arms is most commonly affected. It occurs when the fungus enters the skin through a small cut or scrape, usually after someone touches contaminated plant matter. Cutaneous (skin) infection is the most common form of the infection. 1, 2 People get sporotrichosis by coming in contact with the fungal spores in the environment. This fungus lives throughout the world in soil and on plant matter such as sphagnum moss, rose bushes, and hay. Sporotrichosis (also known as “rose gardener’s disease”) is an infection caused by a fungus called Sporothrix.
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