Recently, the worldwide appearance of this fungus as an emerging pathogen has been reported. We report the case of an erosive tinea manuum from a T. erinacei infection. A 23-year-old man presented with a 1-month history of an erythematous lesion on his left palm. He had been diagnosed ...
orbiculare, either as a pathogen or as a saprophyte, has enough antigenicity to produce specific humoral response in humans. The anti-P. orbiculare antibodies may perhaps help explain the nonexistence of dermal invasion of this organism in the immunity-intact host....
Microsporum ferrugineum was the major pathogen (66.7%) and most of its infections (80.4%) caused a non-inflammatory type of tinea capitis. Griseofulvin, in a dosage of 10-15 mg/kg/day and selenium sulfide shampoos, yielded an 84.8% cure rate within 14.9 weeks. No recurrence or obvious ...
Depending on the type of causative dermatophyte they might present as a superficial mycosis or a deep infection with a serious inflammatory reaction. Microsporum canis is the most common pathogen in our climate. Tinea capitis is treated by systemic antifungals, mostly terbinafine and intraconazole, ...
There existed significant difference in pathogen spectrum between child and adult tinea capitis. Furthermore, black-dot type represented the most common type of tinea capitis for both children (303, 45.29%) and adults (71, 65.14%). Notably, the number of cases caused ...
Thus, it is not clear whether these 8 cases are coincidence, or clinical variation of M. canis scalp infection which has been rarely reported so far. The role of the host hypersensitivity and a bacterial copathogen should not certainly be ignored, but further observations are required in order...
The pathogen was Microsporum canis in 6 cases, and Trichophyton tonsurans in 6 cases. In the cases with M. canis, patients were boys aged 2 to 8 years in 5 cases, and the type of disease was non-inflammatory in 5 cases and inflammatory in 1 case. The patients with T. tonsurans were...
Summary BackgroundTinea capitis is the most common type of dermatomycosis in children. Its pathogen profile shows geographic variations as well as temporal shifts. Patients and methodsData from 150 patients with mycologically confirmed tinea capitis treated at the Department of Dermatology, University ...
orbiculare, either as a pathogen or as a saprophyte, has enough antigenicity to produce specific humoral response in humans. The anti-P. orbiculare antibodies may perhaps help explain the nonexistence of dermal invasion of this organism in the immunity-intact host....