Childhood diffuse alopecia caused by Serratia marcences

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Camila Motta Coli Putti
Raquel Sônego Bortolotti
Izabela Silva Brito
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0023-1506
Raissa Monteiro Silva
Clarissa Santos de Carvalho Ribeiro

Abstract

Childhood alopecia is a rare disease, with an estimated 1% of pediatric dermatological consultations. Skin, eye and tissue infections by Serratia marcescens are rarely reported. We report a case of a female patient, two years and three months old, with painful lesions in the biparietal region of the scalp for two months, with an exulcerated, crusted aspect, associated with serosanguinolent, purulent secretion and with alopecia. She was initially treated with antifungal and empirical, systemic and topical antibiotic therapy, according to the Kerion Celsi hypothesis, without improvement. The isolated growth of the bacterium Serratia marcescens was observed, thus establishing a diagnosis of alopecia by bacterial etiology, and treatment with sulfamethoxazole/trimetropin (30 + 6 mg/Kg/d) was started for ten days, with the resolution of the infectious condition and onset of area repilation of alopecia, leaving only small scarred areas as a sequel.



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Putti CMC, Bortolotti RS, Brito IS, Monteiro Silva R, Ribeiro CS de C. Childhood diffuse alopecia caused by Serratia marcences. HSJ [Internet]. 2020 Sep. 24 [cited 2024 Nov. 22];10(3):126-30. Available from: https://portalrcs.hcitajuba.org.br/index.php/rcsfmit_zero/article/view/1007
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Camila Motta Coli Putti, Itajubá Faculty of Medicine

Bacharel em Medicina pela Faculdade de Medicina de Itajubá

Raquel Sônego Bortolotti, Itajubá Faculty of Medicina

Bacharel em Medicina pela Faculdade de Medicina de Itajubá

Izabela Silva Brito, Faculdade de Medicina de Itajubá

Acadêmica do 3º ano da Faculdade de Medicina de Itajubá

Raissa Monteiro Silva, Itajubá Faculty of Medicine

Acadêmica do 3º ano da Faculdade de Medicina de Itajubá

Clarissa Santos de Carvalho Ribeiro, Itajubá Faculty of Medicine

Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Itajubá, Master in Health Sciences at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo.

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