What's the difference between dermatophyte and dermophyte?
Dermatophyte
Definition:
(n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty soil samples from different desert localities in Kuwait were surveyed for keratinophilic and geophilic dermatophytic fungi.
(2) Soils rich in keratinic residues constitute a permanent or occasional reservoir for dermatophytes and keratinolytic and keratinophilic fungi, and are a source of potential infection for man and animals.
(3) Feline immunodeficiency, virus infection, cryptococcosis, dermatophyte pseudomycetomas, demodicosis, Sézary-like syndrome, and discoid lupus erythematosus in cats are reviewed.
(4) An epidemiological study of dermatophytes was achieved during the years 1983-1984 in the Mycology Laboratory of Saint-Louis' Hospital.
(5) It possesses a broad spectrum of activity in vitro against dermatophytes, yeasts and some Gram-positive bacteria.
(6) The latter included Candida albicans (CA) and four dermatophyte species, viz.
(7) In order to determine the presence of dermatophytes and saprophytes in healthy toe and finger nails, 120 students (60 male and 60 female) from preparatory schools at Sohag Governorate (Upper Egypt) were studied.
(8) The fungicidal activity of terbinafine which has been demonstrated in vitro for several strains of dermatophyte, filamentous and dimorphic fungi, has been demonstrated in vivo in model systems for dermatophytoses.
(9) Mycological tests were made in 212 patients who had lesions with clinical appearance of dermatophytic infection.
(10) The girl's only pet, a guinea pig, was proven to be free of dermatophytes.
(11) The pathogens belong to three groups, dermatophytes, yeasts and molds, which can be differentiated according to their behaviour in culture and in tissue.
(12) LNC from guinea pigs with mild reinfection dermatophytosis had depressed in vitro reactivity to mitogens and dermatophyte antigen.
(13) The exact form of effector "T" cell immunity and the cellular and molecular mechanism(s) which eliminate dermatophytes from the skin, are poorly understood, but may involve lymphokine and accelerated epidermal turnover.
(14) Twenty-one of them (35%) gave positive cultures for dermatophytes in Sabouraud medium.
(15) The isolated dermatophytes were identified according to Rebell and Taplin.
(16) Miconazole nitrate was used topically in 83 dermatophytic and candidal infections.
(17) Similarly the isolation rates of dermatophytes and Candida species were higher in patients with moderate and severe disease compared to those with mild disease.
(18) The dermatophyte was apparently introduced into the facility by a single infected patient.
(19) The in vitro activity of saperconazole against selected isolates of dermatophytes and its in vivo efficacy in a guinea pig dermatophytic infection model using Trichophyton mentagrophytes were evaluated.
(20) 83 p. 100 are affected by zoo-antropophilic dermatophytes, M. canis chiefly in town, T. mentagrophytes, T. verrucosum in rural aeras.