Topical Treatment of Common Superficial Tinea Infections -- American Family Physician

www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 2095 are not typically amenable to topical therapy, they will not be discussed in this article. It is important to note that nondermatophytes and yeasts may infect the sites mentioned above. For example, tinea unguium is only a subset of the onychomycoses, which include other types of fungal infections of the nails. Similarly, tinea corporis refers only to dermatophyte infection of the skin and not other superficial fungal infections such as candidiasis. Although tinea versicolor is commonly called a tinea, it is caused by the nondermatophyte Malassezia furfur (also referred to as Pityrosporum orbiculare and Pityrosporum ovale) and is not a true tinea infection.