We conducted a retrospective cohort study on clinical and mycological features of tinea pedis and tinea unguium in psychiatric inpatients in Japan. Of the 317 inpatients (152 with schizophrenia and 165 with depression), 46.1% had tinea pedis and 23.7% had tinea unguium. Of those with tinea pedis, 48.6% also had tinea unguium. The most common clinical type of tinea pedis was the combination of i...

BACKGROUND Tinea pedis is a commonly encountered dermatophytic infection with a clinical prevalence of 15-25%. Limited studies have evaluated the prevalence of occult tinea pedis. OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of occult tinea pedis in asymptomatic subjects with feet that appeared healthy and to identify possible related risk factors. METHODS A prospective...

superficial mycosis of the skin is one of the most prevalent human infections. within these infections, tinea pedis and tinea cruris have been studied. different aetiologic causes play role in these infections which the most important of them are trichophyton rubrum, trichophyton mentagrophyte and epidermophyton floccosum. prevalence arrangement of these causes are defferent in societies. this ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of tinea capitis and tinea pedis in school children in Turkey. METHODS The study included 8122 students from 24 schools in the rural and urban areas around Kayseri,Turkey. We asked every student for their personal identification and also for their sanitation in order to get an idea about dermatophytosis. Samples taken from suspicious lesio...

Athletes present risk of cutaneous mycosis. A study was carried out with 23 soccer players using clinical and mycological examination (direct microscopic examination and culture) and nail clipping. Eighteen (78.26%) did not present mycosis; two (8.70%) presented tinea pedis, and three (13.04%) presented onychomycosis associated to tinea pedis, mainly for Trichophyton mentagrophytes. Infected ti...

OBJECTIVE To determine the epidemiology of dermatophytosis in Palestinian patients, detect changes in the etiological agents during the last three decades, and to correlate between concomitant tinea pedis infections, and other cutaneous lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS 220 suspected dermatophytosis patients were involved in this study. In an additional 38 cases, where consultation was prompted ...

the frequency of tinea pedis in patients with tinea cruris has not been elucidated. the main objective of this study is to define this frequency all patients referred to the mycological laboratory of razi hospital, tehran, during a 3-month period in 1997, who had a positive koh smear for dermatophyte in the groin area were included in the study. a culture from this site, and a smear and culture...

به منظور بررسی ارزش روش ایمونوفلورسانس در تشخیص آزمایشگاهی سالک 110 نفر که دارای زخم های مشکوک به سالک بودند و برای آزمایش از نظر جسم لیشمان به دانشکده بهداشت و انستیتو تحقیقات بهداشتی معرفی شده بودند تحت برسی قار گرفتند. از بیماران گسترشهایی از زخم و نمونه خون از نوک انگشت تهیه می شد. در گسترش های تهیه شده با آزمایش میکروسکپی دقیق جستجوی جسم لیشمن و در پلاسمای جدا شده از نمونه خون با آزمایش فل...

This study prospectively evaluated the prevalence and risk factors of tinea unguium and tinea pedis in the general adult population in Madrid, Spain. One thousand subjects were clinically examined, and samples of nails and scales from the interdigital spaces of the feet were taken from those patients presenting with signs or symptoms of onychomycosis and/or tinea pedis, respectively. In additio...

background: tinea pedis is probably the commonest form of dermatophy10ses in developed countries and is one of the public heath problems. the wearing of shoes and resultant maceration of toe cleft predisposes to this condition. the aim of this survey was study of conditions and prevalence or tinea pedis in health stave of hamadan, sina hospital. methods: a quality descriptive cross sectional st...