Background: Tinea capitis (T.capitis) is a disease caused by superficial fungal infection of the scalp, eyebrows and eyelashes, with a propensity for attacking hair shafts and follicles. There is certainly ample evidence that there is massive contamination of school rooms by viable spores in classes where cases have occurred. Objective: Determine clinical and mycological profile of T.capitis am...

One of the problems of public health in Iran is mycotic inflection which its incidence is not known. The most important disease of them is dermatophytosis. In this regard, determination of various species of etiologic agent, infection source, the risk of contact to animals, and public training are necessary to perform epidemiologic studies. In this research 750 suspected samples (including 560 ...

Tinea incognita is a dermatophytic infection that is difficult to diagnose, usually modified by inappropriate topical or systemic corticosteroid therapy. We report an extensive case of tinea incognita caused by the zoophilic dermatophyte Trichophyton mentagrophytes (var. granulosa) in a 49-year-old female patient with CREST (Calcinosis; Raynaud phenomenon; Esophageal involvement; Sclerodactyly;...

BACKGROUND [corrected] Dermatophytes are common in both developed and developing countries, the species involved and the resulting clinical entities vary geographically. AIM OF STUDY To determine public health importance of dermatophytes with special regard to the distribution of the zoophilic species among the examined human cases. METHODS Patient specimens (dermatophytosis-like lesions) w...

From March 2008 through February 2014, 80 patients aged 1-95 years (43 men and 37 women) were diagnosed with tinea faciei by a rural Japanese clinic. The affected sites were the cheek in 42 patients (52.5%), the auricles and area surrounding the auricles in 16 (20.0%), and the mandible in 12 (15.0%); 33 patients (41.2%) had concurrent ringworm in areas other than the face. Twenty-one patients (...

INTRODUCTION Yellow fever continues to be a problem in sub-Saharan Africa with repeated epidemics occurring. The mosquito Aedes bromeliae is a major vector of yellow fever, but it cannot be readily differentiated from its non-vector zoophilic sister species Ae. lilii using morphological characters. Genetic differences have been reported between anthropophilic Ae. bromeliae and zoophilic Ae. lil...

BACKGROUND Biting habit of mosquitoes plays an important role in the epidemiology of mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes use a set of elaborate sensory modalities to find their preferred hosts by exploiting cues emanating from a nearby host. It has been suggested that the chemical profile of skin can provide further support for anthropophilic mosquito species to find their suitable hosts. This ...