purpureum has not been isolated from cases of tinea corporis in the Province, but the reaction is described as a psoriasiform plaque, with no tendency to central clearing (Lewis & Hopper, 1948). T. purpureum is endemic in tropical zones. Similarly, T. violaceum has not been isolated during the period of this review from patients with tinea corporis. It produces small areas of ill-defined scalin...

Latar belakang : Personal Hygiene (Kebersihan Diri) meruapakan suatu cara untuk mencegah penyakit dan penularannya. Untuk mendapatkan personal hygiene yang baik benar dibutuhkan pengetahuan mengenai hal tersebut. Maka dari itu peneliti prioritas masalah ditemukan yaitu kurangnya pemahaman meliputi handuk digunakan secara bersama-sama pakaian bertukar sesama subjek penelitian di panti. Pakaian t...

Dermatophytosis are superficial mycoses caused by fungi that can invade stratum corneum and keratinized tissues. In order to study the frequency of dermatophytes species and the clinical manifestations caused by these fungi, in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, the authors analyzed cultures isolated at the Mycology Laboratory from a selected population (15,300 out-patients of the Hospital das Clínicas, De...

Dermatophytes are Fungi which infect keratinized tissues, that is, skin epidermis, hair and nails. Trichophyton violaceum is an anthropophilic, cosmopolitan dermatophyte. It primarily causes tinea capitis and less commonly tinea corporis and tinea unguium. We present a report of two cases of tinea corporis due to T. violaceum in children. Infections due to T. violaceum are important because of ...

Tinea unguium is a common mycosis in many part of the world including Iran. The prevalence of this mycosis varied depending on time, health level and geographical location. To stabilise the etiological, epidemiological and risk factors of tinea unguium in North-west Iran, a study of patients with suspected dermatophyte infections of their nails was carried out between 1996 and 2004. During this...

The common dermatophyte genera Trichophyton, Microsporum, and Epidermophyton are major causes of superficial fungal infections in children. These infections (e.g., tinea corporis, pedis, cruris, and unguium) are typically acquired directly from contact with infected humans or animals or indirectly from exposure to contaminated soil or fomites. A diagnosis usually can be made with a focused hist...

objectives: this study aimed to compare the therapeutic efficacy of terbinafine andfluconazole in terms of mycological cure in the treatment of tinea corporis and tineacruris. method: in this clinical trial, 30 patients with t. corporis and t .cruris wereselected. patients were divided into two groups by random selection. the first group wastreated with fluconazole 150 mg weekly for four weeks ...

Luliconazole is a novel topical antifungal imidazole with broad-spectrum and potent antifungal activity used in treatment of superficial mycoses. Superficial mycoses are not fatal, but they constitute a serious problem for patients’quality of life in view of the considerable discomfort and/or cosmetic deformity they cause. These diseases are found worldwide and affect 20 to 25% of the world’s p...

OBJECTIVE To determine the epidemiology of dermatophytosis in Palestinian patients, detect changes in the etiological agents during the last three decades, and to correlate between concomitant tinea pedis infections, and other cutaneous lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS 220 suspected dermatophytosis patients were involved in this study. In an additional 38 cases, where consultation was prompted ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Otomycosis is an acute, subacute or chronic fungal infection of the pinna, the external auditory meatus and the ear canal caused mainly by several species of saprophytic fungi. Lamisil (Terbinafine) is an allylamine antifungal agent, that is used both in the topical and oral administration for the treatment of dermatophytosis, cutaneous candidiasis, and the pityriasis ver...