Ringworm of the Scalp in India
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Out of 53 consecutive cases of tinea o scalp that have been seen at the Cl1 a School of Tropical Medicine during the as three years 20 have been found to be caused by Trichophyton violaceum; the remainder wer caused by Microsporon audouini with the exception of two cases of favus. These 20 cases of T. violaceum infection included five Europeans, twelve Mohammed and three Marwaris. No case was over we^ve years of age and seventeen were less than te years old. Six of the cases were found simultaneously in one family. We have not so discovered any other species of trichophy on a cause of this form of ringworm in ' a similar observation being that oi JC (1909) in Rumania.
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Studies of Ringworm. Part IV. Incidence of Trichophyton Gypseum in India *Read at the Indian Science Congress held in January 1947 at Delhi.
. 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...
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