Invasive dermatophytosis is a dermatophyte infection characterized by fungal invasion into deeper skin tissue including the dermis and subcutaneous areas. Herein, man who was an HIV/AIDS sufferer reported to develop unusually invasive in form of nodules ulceration. His CD4+ cells count 88 cells/µl with percentage 1.87%. Self-medication topical antibiotics did not respond. Microbiological examin...

Dermatophytoses are frequent contagious fungal skin diseases that affect the skin of people and animals. Zoophile dermatophytes pose a significant problem for both human and veterinary medicine, and they are especially present among bovines. In this paper we showed a simultaneous occurrence of trichophytosis among professionally exposed people and bovines on a farm in Vojvodina, Serbia. The tes...

Outbreak of acute bovine dermatophytosis in a large scale dairy herd in Arusha region of Tanzania is described. Clinical history of the condition complimented with detailed examination of the affected animals (33.3%, 14/42) revealed that animals were pastured during the day and padlocked at night. The main clinical signs presented were gray-white, discrete, crusty, circumscribed extensive lesio...

Dermatophyte fungi causing tinea capitis can be divided into anthropophilic and zoophilic organisms. Anthropophilic fungi grow preferentially on humans, and the most common type forms large conidia of approximately 3-4 mm in diameter within the hair shaft (endothrix). Common causes of endothrix infection include Trichophyton tonsurans , T schoenleinii and T violaceum. Zoophilic fungi are acquir...

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...