Sporotrix schenckii

Distinct Characters Stain/Culture/Tests Pathogenesis

 Dimorphic Fungus  Cigar shaped yeast in pus
1) Environmental form: on
plant material,
worldwide as hyphae
with rosettes and
sleeves of conidia
2) Tissue form: cigar-
shaped yeast in tissue

 Traumatic implantation
(rose or plum tree thorns,
wire/sphagnum moss)

Diseases/Treatment Prevention
 Sporotrichosis (rose gardener disease)
 subcutaneous or lymphocutaneous lesions
 Treatment:
a) Itraconazole
b) KI in milk

 Pulmonary (acute or chronic) sporotrichosis

 Urban alcoholics, particularly homeless
(alcoholic rose-garden-sleeper disease)
 Treatment:
a) Itraconazole
b) amphotericin B