Exfoliative dermatitis (ED) or erythroderma is defined as diffuse erythema and scaling of the skin involving more than 90% total body surface, which can be caused by variety systemic cutaneous diseases, such infection, including dermatophytosis. Dermatophytosis a superficial fungal infection keratinized tissue dermatophytes. There are only few case reports ED due to dermatophytosis in literatur...

Terbinafine is an allylamine antifungal agent that has been effective and safe in the treatment of superficial and some deep mycotic infections in adults. An increasing amount of data is available where terbinafine has been used in the paediatric population to treat superficial fungal infections, in particular tinea capitis. The data suggest that terbinafine is effective and safe using treatmen...

results the results of energy-dispersive x-ray demonstrated that the purified nps consisted of only se. in addition, transmission electron micrographs showed that 120- to 140-nm spherical se nps were the most common. an antifungal assay was performed with a standard clinical and laboratory standards institute broth microdilution method. minimum inhibitory concentration (mic) measurements of the...

Superficial fungal infections are caused by many fungi, which can invade various aspects of the human body effect skin, hair, and nails, widely observed in world. Causative agents Candida species, dermatophytes, Malassezia species. This study aims to knowledge gender difference about superficial among immune compromised patients Dhi Qar Governorate. A non-probability (convenience sample) 500 sa...

Tinea corporis is a superficial fungal skin infection of the body caused by dermatophytes. present worldwide. It defined explicitly location lesions that may involve trunk, neck, arms, and legs. Alternative names exist for dermatophyte infections affect other areas body. These include scalp (tinea capitis), face faciei), hands manuum), groin cruris), feet pedis). A case 22 years old male suffer...

conclusion prompt diagnosis and treatment of isolated sphenoidal sinusitis is of utmost importance since it has noncharacteristic manifestations. noninvasive fungal sphenoidal sinusitis is best treated with sphenoidotomy. it seemed that abducens nerve palsy was associated with total sinus obstruction since patient condition improved promptly following the sphenoidotomy. background fungal sinusi...

Onychomycosis refers to nail infections caused by any fungus, including yeasts and nondermatophyte molds. Fungal infection has emerged as an important cause of neonatal infections with significant morbidity and mortality, especially in extremely low and very low birth weight infants. We report a 24-days-old boy who presented with onychomycosis on left ring finger nail associated with fungal uri...

The genus Candida includes about 200 different species, but only a few species are human opportunistic pathogens and cause infections when the host becomes debilitated or immunocompromised. Candida infections can be superficial or invasive. Superficial infections often affect the skin or mucous membranes and can be treated successfully with topical antifungal drugs. However, invasive fungal inf...

PURPOSE The goals of the study were the following: 1) to show the epidemiology of microbial keratitis (MK) in the southeast Brazil, 2) to compare the epidemiological differences between fungal (FK) and bacterial keratitis (BK), and 3) to evaluate the frequency which ophthalmologists accurately differentiate bacterial keratitis from fungal keratitis based on clinical diagnosis. METHODS A retro...

OBJECTIVE To determine the underlying cause of superficial skin ulcers over a 15-year period. METHODS A retrospective histopathological analysis of 670 cases of superficial skin ulcers diagnosed in the Department of Pathology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria from January 1991 to December 2005. RESULTS A total of 670 superficial skin ulcers were analyzed. The male t...