Tinea capitis in children from Goiânia, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Silva, Maria do Rosário Rodrigues¹  Fernandes, Orionalda de Fátima Lisboa¹  Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia¹  Dias, Tatiana¹  Soares, Ailton José¹  Souza, Lúcia Kioko Hasimoto e¹  Costa, Milce¹  Passos, Xisto Sena¹ 

关键词: Dermatophytes;    Microsporum canis;    Trichophyton tonsurans;    Trichophyton mentagrophytes;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822003000600002

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

During the period January 1999 to July 2002 a total de 164 cases of Tinea capitis were diagnosed by mycological examination in Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública of the Universidade Federal de Goiás. Of the 164 patients 94 (57.3%) were males, with an age of 3 months to 13 years. Laboratory studies were performed by direct examination with 20% KOH and cultivated on Mycobiotic agar medium and Sabouraud dextrose agar with chloramphenicol. The following species were identified: Microsporum canis (71.3%), Trichophyton tonsurans (11%), Trichophyton mentagrophytes (7.9%), Trichophyton rubrum (6.7%), and Microsporum gypseum (3%). Our study showed that the most frequent riseof scalp infection was a zoophylic fungi, called Microsporum canis.

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