Abstract
We report an infant who presented with sporotrichosis. A 6-month-old Japanese girl consulted our department due to nodules which had developed on her right cheek. These nodules first developed when she was 3-month-old. Sporothrix schenckii was isolated from a biopsy specimen from her cheek and we therefore diagnosed her to have sporotrichosis and she was successfully treated with topical heat therapy. Ordinally the incidense of infant sporotrichosis is very low, because infants do not often come in contact with soil or plant materials outdoors. The earliest reported case of sporotorichosis was in a 3-month-old infant, however, the symptoms also developed in our case at 3 months of age.
