1 Senior Resident, 2 Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology DRPGMC Tanda. Abstract Dermatophytosis is a superficial fungal infection confined to the stratum corneum and appendages of the skin. Health education, timely diagnosis and treatment has brought down the fungal infection rate in developed countries but it is still common in developing countries. Tinea corporis refers to all the ...

Tinea capitis is the most common superficial mycosis in children of school age. Although it is of public health importance, it is not a reportable or notifiable disease; therefore, actual prevalence figures are unknown in many endemic areas. The aim of this work was to determine the prevalence of tinea capitis among primary school children in two states in central Nigeria, highlighting the main...

The prevalence and the clinical relevance of dermatophytoses in HIV-infected patients are poorly documented, particularly for those caused by tinea incognito. Here, we report a case of widespread facial tinea incognito occurring in an Italian patient with advanced HIV infection, showing both skin and brain lesions. Second-line treatment with liposomal amphotericin B and cotrimoxazole, administe...

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...

Introduction: Tinea faciei, also known as tinea faciale or facial ringworm, is a common infection of the skin on face caused by fungus. In general, infections are quite common, but ringworm happen mostly in teens and young adults anyone with an immunosuppressive disease. Management involves use topical antifungals limited diseases, oral therapy usually reserved for more extensive cases. These a...

The etiology and prevalence of Tinea Capitis in adults and children was studied in 115 cases. The most common etiologic agent was Trichophyton Violaceum recovered from 82 63% cases, Trichophyton rubrum from 10.4%, Trichophyton tonsurans from 3.47% and Microsporum canis from 3.4% cases. The study includes seventy cases of "blackdot" ringworm of the scalp, four cases of Kerion and forty one cases...

from 687 patients referred to the medical mycology depatment of the school of public health, 184 cases showed tinea capitis infection, direct microscopy and culture was positive in 86.2% and 75.29% of the cases respectively. from the positive cultures 5 different dermatophtes were identified as: microsporum canis, trichophyton violaceum, trichophyton verrucosum, trichophyton schoenleinii, trich...

In recent years it has become more and more evident that serious or intractable fungus infection occurs only when there is something abnormal about the patient. For this reason we have undertaken a physiological and biochemical study of individuals with certain fungous diseases with the hope that these studies would lead to a better understanding of susceptibility to and pathogenecity of mycoti...