Overview: The fungal skin disease dermatophytosis has come to be called ringworm because of the appearance of the skin lesion that characteristically occurs with this disorder: a circular area of hair loss with a red, raised outer rim. These lesions result from an inflammatory reaction to the fungus. Most often, dogs and cats are infected by the Microsporum canis fungus, but other types of fung...

Mycologists and practicing dermatologists frequently have designated as distinct species the downy forms of Trichophyton mentagrophytes that are commonly isolated from chronic ringworm of the feet or toenails and the granular forms of this fungus usually isolated from suppurative ringworm of the beard or scalp. The chief difference between the two types of culture is one of gross colonial form....

. Trichophyton gypseuni Bodin 1902 or any ot its many variants has not been recorded in India as yet. It is the cause of the small-spored ectothrix trichophytosis in man. Being of animal origin it produces more inflammatory reactions than other ringworm fungi. In children.?It causes the ringworm of the scalp (Tinea capitis) often producing the condition called the 1 kerion ' in which the affect...

J-N the tropics ringworm infection of the body is not only common but difficult to avoid afld more difficult to cure. In any skin outpatient department the number of cases of der^atomycosis is quite large. In Calcutta, 20 Per cent of the total number of patients with skin disease come for the treatment of ringworm infection, i.e. about 2,000 new cases every year. To this may be added quite an A...

The aim of this study was to develop an in-house enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the serological diagnosis of ringworm infection in cattle. We used available recombinant forms of Trichophyton rubrum dipeptidyl peptidase V (TruDppV) and T. rubrum leucin aminopeptidase 2 (TruLap2), which are 98% identical to Trichophyton verrucosum orthologues. Field serum samples from 135 cattle wi...