The common cause of skin infections are dermatophytes and opportunistic fungi. The prevalence of dermatophyte infection varies with different geographic area and climatic conditions. This study was undertaken to study the clinical pattern and the etiological agents of dermatophyte infections. Clinical samples from 100 patients were subjected to microscopic examination and culture on various med...

Dermatophytes are keratinophilic fungi that can be pathogenic for humans and animals by infecting the stratum corneum, nails, claws or hair. The first infection step consists of adherence of arthroconidia to the stratum corneum. The mechanisms and the kinetics of adherence have been investigated using different in vitro and ex vivo experimental models, most notably showing the role of a secrete...

background: trichophyton tonsurans is one of the dermatophyte fungi which invades the skin and hair of human. several properties of this fungus have been investigated so far. however a few studies were carried out in the field of molecular biology of this fungus. in the present study, we tried to identify the squalene epoxidase gene which is related to synthesis of ergosterol in this fungus. me...

background: onychomycosis results from invasion of the nail plate by dermatophytes, yeasts or mould species of fungi. the objective was to determine the etiological agents of onychomycosis. methods: a total of 549 patients clinically suspected of onychomycosis were examined for causative fungal agents. both di­rect microscopy and the cultures of the nail material were performed to identify the ...

the frequency of tinea pedis in patients with tinea cruris has not been elucidated. the main objective of this study is to define this frequency all patients referred to the mycological laboratory of razi hospital, tehran, during a 3-month period in 1997, who had a positive koh smear for dermatophyte in the groin area were included in the study. a culture from this site, and a smear and culture...

the objective of this study was to investigate fungal flora of the hair coat of domestic golden hamsterswith and without skin lesions. sixty hamsters were examined in the small animal teaching hospitalof the faculty of veterinary medicine, ferdowsi university of mashhad, and mashhad, iran. asteriletoothbrush was used for sample collection, from the entire body of the hamsters, all skin lesions ...