Behçet's disease is a relapsing multisystem polysymptomatic disease with exacerbations and remissions defined by the presence of the major symptom, recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, plus two of the following: recurrent genital ulceration, eye lesions, skin lesions or a positive pathergy test. Mucocutaneous manifestations like oral and genital ulcers, and cutaneous lesions (papulopustular lesions,...

or surgical illness to the patient who wishes to have a minor cutaneous blemish removed for cosmetic reasons. It is especially the people in the last category and those with less trivial but apparently minor superficial lesions who provide a wealth of varied problems for the diagnostic histology department. Fortunately it is the custom t0 send all such tissue for examination. From the pathologi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Detection of agents responsible for cutaneous mycosis may be effective in the prevention of fungal infections from environmental and animal sources. With this background in mind, in this study, we aimed to identify the distribution of cutaneous mycotic infections in patients referred to Imam Reza Hospital of Mashhad, Iran during 2000- 2011. MATERIALS AND METHODS In tota...

Introduction: Superficial mycoses refer to the diseases of skin and its appendages caused by fungi. Aims & Objectives: The present study was undertaken to find out the prevalence of different clinical types of Dermatomycoses including Dermatophytes, candida spp. and dermatomycotic mold infections of skin and its appendages and their etiological agents in and around Aligarh region of Northern In...

Correspondence: Dr. Sunil Kumar Gupta, Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology, Venereology, Leprology, Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT Background: Cutaneous fungal infections are one of the most common diseases in clinical practice. Superficial mycoses refers to fungal infection of skin and its appendages and includ...

IL-17 and related cytokines are direct and indirect targets of selective immunosuppressive agents for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and other diseases of pathologic inflammation. Insights into the potential adverse effects of IL-17 blockade can be drawn from the experience of patients with deficiencies in the IL-17 pathway. A unifying theme of susceptibility to mucocutaneous candidiasis ...

Chronic inflammation rather than invasion is characteristic of some forms of superficial candidiasis such as denture stomatitis. We hypothesized that Candida albicans may play a critical role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory lesions observed in chronic candidiasis by activating the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) from epithelial stores of the precursor. The aim of this ...

Candidiasis is a term describing infections by yeasts from the genus Candida, and the type of infection encompassed by candidiasis ranges from superficial to systemic. Treatment of such infections often requires antifungal agents such as clotrimazole, but increased use of these drugs has led to a selection of Candida sp. with increased resistance to these drugs. Antibiotics have been effective ...

Luliconazole is a novel topical antifungal imidazole with broad-spectrum and potent antifungal activity used in treatment of superficial mycoses. Superficial mycoses are not fatal, but they constitute a serious problem for patients’quality of life in view of the considerable discomfort and/or cosmetic deformity they cause. These diseases are found worldwide and affect 20 to 25% of the world’s p...