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 ...

Dermoscopy has being used over the past twenty years as a noninvasive aid in the diagnosis of innumerable skin conditions, including infectious diseases and infestations (Entodermoscopy).Tinea nigra is a superficial phaeohyfomycosis that affects mainly the glabrous skin of palms and soles. We describe a 14 year-old girl with a three-month history of an enlarging brown patch of her hand diagnose...

Infections remain the most common immediate causes of morbidity in immune compromised hosts. The abated host defences are responsible for an increased susceptibility to various uncommon and opportunistic pathogens, and to a lowered host inflammatory response. Skin lesions develop in up to a third of infections in these patients, and they possibly represent the initial step of a systemic illness...

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