of oral terbinafine (Lamisil; Sandoz) in the treatment of feline ringworm caused by. Fifteen cats infected with M canis were treated orally once daily with 30 mg/ kg of terbinafine over a 2-week period. Jul 16, 2015. Itraconazole is an antifungal drug that inhibits the growth of fungal organisms by. Overview Itraconazole for Dogs and Cats commonly known as "ringworm" and toenail infections. Rin...

Although the medical and biological importance of ringworm infections was acknowledged a long time ago, the putting-up-to-date of some clinical notions is justified for at least three reasons: the improvement and accessibility of molecular biology techniques, the consideration of the major pathogenic role of these viruses in circumstances of immune depression, the possibility to control these i...

Reports about ringworm in donkeys are scanty and refer to zoonotic agents such as Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton verrucosum. Seventeen Asino Amiatina donkeys semi-extensively farmed in paddocks showed alopecic nummular, scaling areas mainly on head and neck. Microsporum racemosum cultivated from the lesions was identified by morphology and PCR. Affected animals healed spontaneousl...

We report here a case of Marjolin's ulcer developing in a long-standing, inadequately treated, chronic ringworm infestation of the lower limb. A 35-year-old female patient with a ten-year history of a chronic ringworm infestation had developed a nonhealing ulcer in an area of infestation on the right leg. A biopsy revealed well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma associated with the ringworm...

ringworm in 1874, but he considered the fungus to be identical with that of the European ringworm. Manson (1879?82) in China was the first to describe the disease in any detail and he gave it the name tinea imbricata; he considered the fungus a non-cultivable Trichophyton, to which Blanchard gave the name Trichophyton concentricum. Castellani in Ceylon (1910-11) was the first to cultivate the f...

Overview: The fungal skin disease dermatophytosis has come to be called ringworm because of the appearance of the skin lesion that characteristically occurs with this disorder: a circular area of hair loss with a red, raised outer rim. These lesions result from an inflammatory reaction to the fungus. Most often, dogs and cats are infected by the Microsporum canis fungus, but other types of fung...

Mycologists and practicing dermatologists frequently have designated as distinct species the downy forms of Trichophyton mentagrophytes that are commonly isolated from chronic ringworm of the feet or toenails and the granular forms of this fungus usually isolated from suppurative ringworm of the beard or scalp. The chief difference between the two types of culture is one of gross colonial form....

. Trichophyton gypseuni Bodin 1902 or any ot its many variants has not been recorded in India as yet. It is the cause of the small-spored ectothrix trichophytosis in man. Being of animal origin it produces more inflammatory reactions than other ringworm fungi. In children.?It causes the ringworm of the scalp (Tinea capitis) often producing the condition called the 1 kerion ' in which the affect...