Historically, Trichophyton rubrum has been identified as the causative agent of disease, Tinea pedis. Treatment options focus on use antifungals; however, antifungals have modest efficiency for clearing T. with high rates reinfection and disease reoccurrence. Here we propose that pedis is not a simple fungal infection but complex dysbiosis characterized by changes bacterial profile microbiome, ...

The present study was undertaken to find the predominant etiological agent of dermatophytoses among the patients attending the out patient clinic of Mycology Section, Department of Dermatology, Madras Medical College and Hospital, Chennai. Specimens were collected from suspected patients with dermatophytoses and examined for the presence of fungal elements, cultured, isolated and identified. Am...

reported no cases in five girls' schools examined and attack rates varying from 2.61 to 10.39 per cent. per term in 11 boys' schools. Age Incidence.-The ages of the patients in the present series ranged from 11 to 60 years. According to the Medical Research Council (1938) most authorities agree that tinea cruris is seldom seen before puberty, but little information is available about relative r...

The fungistatic and fungicidal activities of sertaconazole against dermatophytes were evaluated by testing 150 clinical isolates of causative agents of tinea pedis, Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, and Epidermophyton floccosum. The overall geometric means for fungistatic and fungicidal activities of sertaconazole against these isolates were 0.26 and 2.26 μg/ml, respectively, al...

A 33 year old woman presented with both feet, humid and white Tinea pedis at the second, third and fourth inter-toes areas associated with a beginning onycholysis of the nails lasting for 18 months. KOH mount of the samples was positive for fungal hyphae. The fungus was isolated on Sabouraud-chlorampphenicol agar and identified as Cylindrocarpon lichenicola. The patient was treated with an asso...