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 ...
Trichophyton tonsurans is an especially common pathogen in children compared with adults. Tinea cruris Tinea cruris, also referred to as jock itch, is a superficial dermatophyte infection of the groin. It can occur in both sexes but is more frequent in males; in the pediatric population, it...
Depending on the pathogen and anatomical distribution, tinea pedis may present in a given patient as one of several syndromes. Typically, three variants are seen and include the interdigital (Figure 1), moccasin (Figures 2A and 2B), and vesicobullous forms (Figure 3) of the disease. Some ...
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....
Depending on the pathogen and anatomical distribution, tinea pedis may present in a given patient as one of several syndromes. Typically, three variants are seen and include the interdigital (Figure1), moccasin (Figures2Aand2B), and vesicobullous forms (Figure3) of the disease. Some patients ...
be fungicidal (inhibit or destroy visible growth of the pathogen when subcultured onto agar plates) rather than fungistatic (prevent in vitro growth of dermatophytic fungal infections) have a low incidence of drug-induced adverse effects be nonsensitising and well tolerated have good cost effective...
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...
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 ...
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...
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, ...