A healthy teenage girl presented to our office with a red, itchy rash on her knee and lower leg that started shortly after the start of cheerleading practice for the wrestling team. The patient reported practicing and performing on wrestling mats as a cheerleader. Her primary care physician prescribed triamcinolone, which exacerbated the eruption. On examination, the patient had annular, erythe...

Report of a case of tinea corporis caused by Microsporum gypseum in a 36-year-old female Aids patient. The literature does not refer this dermatophyte as a common etiologic agent in this group of patients.The lesions were generalized,psoriasiform and refractory to treatment with ketoconazole and itraconazole.

BACKGROUND Infestation with the human head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) occurs worldwide. Existing treatment options are limited, and reports of resistance to commonly used pediculicides have been increasing. In this trial we assessed the efficacy of a product containing a high (92%) concentration of the silicone oil dimeticone (identical in composition to NYDA(R)), as compared to a 1% per...

BACKGROUND The incidence of recurrent tinea infections after oral terbinafine therapy is on the rise. AIM This study aims to identify the appearance of incomplete cure and relapse after 2-week oral terbinafine therapy in tinea corporis and/or tinea cruris. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 100 consecutive patients clinically and mycologically diagnosed to have tinea corporis and/or tinea cru...

Anja Bornkessel*, Mirjana Ziemer, Siegrid Yu, Christina Hipler and Peter Elsner Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Erfurter Str. 35, D-07743 Jena, Germany, and Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. *E-mail: [email protected] [The first two authors contributed equally to the writing of this paper.] Accept...