Bacteriological sampling of hair has been previously carried out by applying culture plates directly to the hair but the resulting heavy growth of mixed organisms could make rapid identification of individual colonies difficult and the use of selective media with this technique prevents a comparison of relative numbers of different organisms. The method described here, based onatechnique used b...

Dermatophytosis (tinea) infections are fungal infections caused by dermatophytes a group of fungi that invade and grow in dead keratin. Several species commonly invade human keratin and these belong to the Epidermophyton, Microsporum and Trichophyton genera. They tend to grow outwards on skin, producing a ring-like pattern hence the term 'ringworm'. They are very common and affect different par...

Ringworm is by far the most important animal skin disease transmissible to man. About 27 per cent of all dermatophytosis are due to species which are parasites of the lower animals and though the treatment of this kind of infection is usually simpler than that caused by anthropophilic species, the control of this infection in animals presents a special problem which calls for the co-operation o...

Dermatophyte infections were established in 6.9% of 640 unselected dermatology outpatients attending two district general hospitals in Cumbria over a six-month period. A clinical diagnosis of ringworm was confirmed in the laboratory in 43.1% of hospital and in 21.8% of a smaller series of general practice patients. No result of similar surveys have been published before., Even in a major stock-...

Dermatophytosis (tinea) infections are fungal infections caused by dermatophytes a group of fungi that invade and grow in dead keratin. Several species commonly invade human keratin and these belong to the Epidermophyton, Microsporum and Trichophyton genera. They tend to grow outwards on skin, producing a ringlike pattern hence the term 'ringworm'. They are very common and affect different part...

THIS is the second retrospective survey of the work of the Mycological Diagnostic Service since its establishment in 1959. Its purpose is to review the isolation of dermatophytes (ringworm fungi) of both human (anthropophilic) and animal (zoophilic) origin in Northern Ireland over the period 1967 to 1973, and to compare the findings with previous reports for the province (Mackenzie and Rusk, 19...

aplasia cutis conginita (acc) is a condition characterized by congenital absence of skin, usually on the scalp. acc can occur as an isolated condition or in the presence of other congenital anomalies. here we describe a case of a 16 days old baby girl with an isolated acc of the scalp. her elder two siblings have been diagnosed with acc with concomitant cardiac or limb anomalies. the patient wa...

Atypical Early Presentations Early Lyme disease classically presents with a single erythema migrans (EM or "bull’s-eye") rash. The EM rash may be absent in over 50% of Lyme disease cases, however. Patients should be made aware of the significance of a range of rashes beyond the classic EM, including multiple, flat, raised, or blistering rashes. Central clearing was absent in over half of a seri...

Dermatophytosis (tinea) infections are fungal infections caused by dermatophytes a group of fungi that invade and grow in dead keratin. Several species commonly invade human keratin and these belong to the Epidermophyton, Microsporum and Trichophyton genera. They tend to grow outwards on skin, producing a ringlike pattern hence the term 'ringworm'. They are very common and affect different part...

Dermatophytoses are superficial infections of keratinized tissues like hair, skin and nail, caused by a specialized group of fungi closely related antigenically, physiologically and morphologically, known as dermatophytes or ringworm fungi (Rabell and Taplin, 1974). The etiologic agents of the dermatophytoses are classified in three anamorphic (asexual or imperfect) genera, Epidermophyton, Micr...