Dermatophytes are a group of keratinophilic fungi that have the capacity to invade keratinized tissues. Dermatophytosis is a common fungal infection seen in the tropical and subtropical countries affecting the skin and its appendages. Though dermatophytosis is considered a cosmetic illness, complications do occur. In the recent times dermatophytosis appears to be a neglected fungal disease. Thi...

Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of acupuncture on intractable dermatophytosis so as to provide the new approach to the treatment of dermatophytosis. Method: The fire needling and body acupuncture were used in combination. The main points were selected from the local lesions and the fire needling technique with multiple stimulation and shallow puncture was used on the skin

Dermatophytosis is one of the most common human infections affecting both immunocompetent individuals and immunocompromised patients, in whom the disease is more aggressive and can reach deep tissues. Over the last decades, cases of deep dermatophytosis have increased and the dermatophyte-host interplay remains poorly investigated. Pattern recognition molecules, such as Toll-like receptors (TLR...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Dermatophytosis is one of the most common infections of skin, hair, and nails, caused by a group of keratinophilic fungi known as dermatophytes. Species identification of these fungi is of great significance from epidemiological and therapeutic points of view. The objective of the present study was to investigate dermatophytosis and its causative agents in patients, refer...

for demonstration of cell-mediated immunity and its role in the process of dermatophytosis, 98 patients with acute dermatophytosis (group i) and 131 chronic dermatophytosis patients (group 2) were chosen. in ail patients, lymphocyte transfonnation and skin test were used. 96 members of group i (98%) had positive delayed-type hypersensitivity (dth) responses to trichophytin, whereas only 43 subj...

Dermatophytosis are cutaneous mycoses caused by Microsporum spp., Trichophyton spp. and Epidermophyton dermatophytes. resembles other skin diseases due to its various clinical manifestations such as multifocal alopecia, circular lesions, scaling, crusting, papular pustular follicular obstruction, erythema, hyperpigmentation, miliary dermatitis dystrophic nail growth, diagnosis is based on the u...

The study included 125 clinically healthy pupils (group 1) and 125 clinical cases of dermatophytosis (group 2).The influence of dermatophytosis on some biochemical profiles and the haematological parameters was investigated using standard methods. No significant difference occur in the mean PCV, Total WBC, neutrophils, lymphocytes, platelets counts, and RBS level (P>0.05) but the ESR, Eosinophi...

IMPORTANCE Deep dermatophytosis is a disease that involves dermatophytic infection of the dermis and/or lymph nodes and sometimes the central nervous system. Autosomal recessive deficiency of the CARD9 (caspase recruitment domain 9) protein has been described in 17 patients with deep dermatophytosis from Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. OBSERVATIONS We report a case of extensive dermatophytosis...

background: dermatophytosis is a very common fungal infection of skin, hair and nail caused by dermatophytes. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical patterns and etiology of dermatophytosis in babol, northern iran. methods: from september 2003 to december 2005, 200 patients with dermatophytosis who were admitted in the dermatology clinic of babol medical university were studied....