Abstract

Aim:  To report the characteristics that sporotrichosis and chromoblastomycosis showed in San Ramón canton (Costa Rica) for its epidemiological analysis.

Methods:  A series of cases is described based on the review of clinical records of patients diagnosed with sporotrichosis and chromoblastomycosis in the Dermatology service of the Carlos Luis Valverde Vega Hospital located in San Ramón canton from 1997 to 2020.

Results:  4 sporotrichosis and 7 chromoblastomycosis predominated in elderly farmers. The fixed and lymphangitic variants of sporotrichosis were identified in equal numbers, in chromoblastomycosis the warty variant of the disease predominated.

Conclusion:  This series of cases is the first report on these pathologies in the canton of San Ramón. Therefore, no previous statistical data is available. The demographic, economic and sociocultural changes of the last decades could influence on the epidemiological patterns of these entities in the region.

Keywords: Sporotrichosis; chromoblastomycosis; San Ramón; Costa Rica