Dermatophyte infections are extremely frequent worldwide and their epidemiological features vary according to the geographical area and have changed in the last decades. We studied the spectrum of dermatophytoses by means of a retrospective analysis involving 6,133 patients referred to the Mycology Service of the Dermatology Clinic of Policlinico Hospital - University of Bari, Italy during the ...

Objectives: This study aimed to compare the therapeutic efficacy of Terbinafine and Fluconazole in terms of mycological cure in the treatment of Tinea corporis and Tinea cruris. Method: In this clinical trial, 30 patients with T. corporis and T .cruris were selected. Patients were divided into two groups by random selection. The first group was treated with Fluconazole 150 mg weekly for four we...

BACKGROUND Dermatophytic infections are a worldwide public health problem. In Nigeria, children of nomadic herdsmen are thought to be more at risk because of their early and continuous exposure to different kinds of animals. However, little is known about the level of infection in these children in southeastern Nigeria or elsewhere within the West African sub-region. OBJECTIVE This study inve...

Background: Onychomycosis is a very common and widespread disorder, however the incidence of onychomycosis in psoriatic patients is not accurately assessed. Objective: The present study was undertaken to evaluate the frequency of fungal infections of the nails changed in the course of psoriasis and to provide an answer whether psoriatic nails are specially predisposed to fungal infections. Mate...

Background: Tinea capitis is a dermatophyte infection of the scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes with propensity for attacking hair shafts follicles. The treatment remains same between child, adolescent adult. Purpose: To understand clinical manifestation management tinea capitis. Case management: A ninety-year-old girl, came to Dermatovenereology Outpatient Clinic Salak Hospital because baldness on...

A 7-year-old boy was brought for evaluation of a rash on the chin that had appeared 2 weeks earlier. It was slightly itchy. The mother had applied a topical corticosteroid for a few days but then stopped because of worsening of the lesion. The erythematous, scaly lesion with a well-defined border on this boy's face is characteristic of tinea faciei. As the lesion spreads peripherally, the cente...

Tinea pedis is a disease that attacks the area between fingers, soles of feet, heels, nails and source infection in other areas. Trichophyton rubrum cause 70 % cases tinea pedis. Fungal infections are usually treated using antifungal drugs which mostly have limitations, such as poor penetration into certain tissues, narrow spectrum fungi, high side effects, resistance fungi to antifungals. Util...

Background: Dermatophytosis was a fungal infection caused by molds (dermatophytes). Dermatophytes are group of closely related filamentous fungi able to damage and utilize keratin found in the skin, hair, nails. Objective: To isolate species which cause resistant dermatophytosis, clinical types tinea, as well assess response different antifungal therapies.
 Patients Methods: Ninety-two pat...