Ten years experience with Jorge Lobo's disease in the state of Acre, Amazon region, Brazil


Autoria(s): Woods,William John; Belone,Andréa de Faria Fernandes; Carneiro,Léia Borges; Rosa,Patrícia Sammarco
Data(s)

01/10/2010

Resumo

Jorge Lobo's disease is a cutaneous and subcutaneous mycosis that affects patients in the Amazon region. The number of patients is relatively small, but the real situation of the disease as public health problem is not known, because Jorge Lobo's disease is not a notifiable disease. This study aims to report the clinical evolution in patients affected and to determine the prevalence and areas of occurrence of the disease. A retrospective study was carried out based on the analysis of the clinical records, which included a collection of photographs of patients in the Department of Sanitary Dermatology, in Rio Branco, and patients seen in the interior of the state. In a decade, in Rio Branco, 249 cases of the disease were reported, 30 were females and 219 males. Of these patients, 153 had localized lesions, 94 of them were on one ear, 55 had multifocal lesions and 41 had disseminated lesions. The average time between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis was 19 years. The average age at the time of diagnosis was 53 years, and ages ranged from 14 to 96 years.

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http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652010000500010

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Instituto de Medicina Tropical

Fonte

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo v.52 n.5 2010

Palavras-Chave #Jorge Lobo's disease #Epidemiology #Prevalence #Lacazia loboi
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journal article