Tinea capitis or scalp ringworm is an infection of the scalp hair caused by dermatophyte fungi. Only certain species appear to have the physiological capacity to invade hair shafts, and one, Trichophyton schoenleinii, invades to cause the disease known as favus but does not survive for long ...
Anendothrixinfection occurs inside the hair shaft. The outer cuticle of the hair shaft is intact and causes the hair to break off just as the point where it emerges from the skin (follicular orifice). Fungal species that may cause this pattern of damage includes the differentTrichophytonspecies...
26 Among the main findings, the “comma-shaped” hairs stand out, which are short hairs with homogeneous pigmentation and thickness, due to the breakage and twisting of the hair shaft filled with hyphae in its interior (Fig. 6).27 Their presence ranged from 13% to 100% in cases of ...
Folliculitis is defined as inflammation of hair follicles. Therefore, this is a very nonspecific term which can apply to infectious folliculitis produced by bacterial or fungal infection, or to non-infectious from occlusion and friction. Bacterial folliculitis can occur in any population, and there is...
early infections, the whole hair shaft will fluoresce. As the dermatophyte infection clears, only the more distal portion of the hair glows as the proximal portion of the hair shaft is no longer infected. In later stages of infection, only the very tips of hair shafts fluoresce (Figure 17...
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27. The method of claim 1, wherein:(a) the infection is of a human nail, nail bed, nail matrix, nail plate, or a combination thereof;(b) the infection of the tissue surrounding the nail is paronychia;(c) the infection of the tissue surrounding the nail is chronic paronychia; or(d...
The burn was complicated by an early wound infection managed with wound debridement and intravenous piperacillin/ tazobactam. Following this, the affected skin was resurfaced with autologous skin cells harvested from her right thigh. This involved shaving of hair from her scalp to provide better ...
Reactive oxygen species are in all types of organisms from microbes to higher plants and animals. They are by-products of normal metabolism, such as photos
Keywords: dermatophytes; cutaneous candidiasis; Malassezia infection; treatment; onychomycosis 1. Introduction Fungal infections of the skin and its adnexal structures, such as hair and nails, are common in all regions of the world. Yet over the last 40 years, there have been huge advances in ...