A case of a tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton schoenleinii is presented. It involves a 6-year old Tunisian boy that had presented with diffuse scaling of the scalp misdiagnosed as psoriasis and was treated unsuccessfully with keratolytic shampoos for two years. Tinea favosa due to Trichophyton schoenleinii was confirmed by mycological examination. He was successfully treated with griseofulvi...

An outbreak of ringworm in Karakul sheep occurred during 1973 among the flocks of at least 14 farmers in South West Africa and the northern Cape Province. Infections spread from one farm to another as a result of introducing infected stud rams. On one farm a few cattle, a goat and a horse developed lesions after being in contact with infected sheep. Some of the attendants handling infected shee...

In this paper we present a novel approach for automatic recognition of ring worm skin disease based on LBP (Local Binary Pattern) feature extracted from the affected skin images. The proposed method is evaluated by extensive experiments on the skin images collected from internet. The dataset is tested using three different classifiers i.e. Bayesian, MLP and SVM. Experimental results show that t...

The most common cause of annular lesions found in the adult and child population is ringworm, which can be successfully diagnosed without a biopsy, in typical cases. However, conditions other than this, may present the same clinical appearance (Table 1). Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain the annular configuration of lesions, not always satisfactory. One of the proposed mechanisms...

Under the old name of Goa powder this drug has been in use in India for many years as an external application, and has obtained for itself a considerable reputation for its efficacy in curing cases of " ringworm," especially that form familiarly known as " dhobie's itch." Rubbed oil the affected spot, previously moistened with glycerine, Goa powder gives almost immediate relief to the intense i...

immunosuppressive treatment allowed such an infection to become disseminated. From the start of her illness the patient was thought to have contracted an infection from one of her cats. She admitted to close contact with them and her previous ringworm was further evidence of this. But the puzzling fact remains that Sooty's antibody profile was suggestive of a subgroup A infection while the pati...

Dermatophytes are prevalent causes of cutaneous mycoses and, unlike many other fungal pathogens, are able to cause disease in immunocompetent individuals. They infect keratinized tissue such as skin, hair, and nails, resulting in tinea infections, including ringworm. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that underlie the ability of these organisms to establish and maintain infection. ...