Abstract Background Tinea capitis is a common cutaneous infection of the scalp and hair follicles, typically diagnosed by direct examination culture. Treatment with oral antifungals usually withheld until mycology results are available. In Israel, African refugee children demonstrate higher susceptibility to generally fail undergo follow-up evaluations. Methods This study aimed identify clinica...

Twenty-eight mycotoxins were studied in the hepatocyte primary culture/DNA repair test using rat and mouse hepatocytes. DNA repair synthesis was elicited by several compounds of unknown carcinogenicity, 5,6- dimethoxysterigmatocystin , versicolorins A and B, averufin , xanthomegnin , luteosporin , and chrysazin , as well as by the carcinogenic myocotoxins , aflatoxin B1, sterigmatocystin, luteo...

The oil obtained from Sida cordifolia seeds were found to possess anti microbial activity against E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Candida albicans and Aspergillus niger by using cup-plate method This property was comparable with standard drug norfloxacin and griseofulvin disc. Petroleum ether extract of Sida cordifolia seeds also possess anti-inflammatory activity against carrageenan induced pa...

By using the I-naphthyl acetate assay system, we found that xenobiotics can induce increased esterase activity in cultures of the yeast-like symbiont, Symbioraphrina kochii Jurzitza ex. W. Gams and v. Arx, of the cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricome L.. The activities expressed as percent of solvent control are as follows: flavone, 184.2% ; griseofulvin, 115.8 ~~ ; cis()-p-pinene, 111.4% ; an...

Fifty dermatophyte strains, recently obtained from clinical material, belonging to 4 different species were examined for their susceptibility to 5 systemic or topical antimycotic agents using both an agar macrodilution and a broth microdilution test. Antimycotics compared were griseofulvin, itraconazole, sertaconazole, terbinafine and ciclopiroxolamine. A comparison of the minimum inhibitory co...

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...