(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.
Ringworm
Definition:
(n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinically, our cases of black-dot ringworm caused by T. violaceum often presented with subtle changes of scaling, hair loss, and black dots.
(2) Scalp ringworm among children ranked third (15.3%), Microsporum canis was the main etiologic agent.
(3) The organism was isolated from skin scrapings collected from ringworm lesions mainly on the heads of 2 naturally infected calves.
(4) Three cases of leptospirosis, two cases of Newcastle disease, two cases of ringworm, and a single infection with Mycobacterium bovis and with Salmonella arizonae were also encountered.
(5) A total of 258 cattle clinically affected with Trichophyton verrucosum (ringworm) were treated twice by spraying with a suspension containing the fungicidal antibiotic natamycin.
(6) Dermatophytes of the genera Trichophyton, Microsporum and Epidermophyton were isolated from 162 (41%) of 395 patients with clinical manifestations of ringworm infection reporting at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria between January 1986 and December 1987.
(7) A survey was carried out on the distribution of ringworm infections among school children in four primary schools in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria.
(8) A suspension based on the antibiotic, natamycin, was applied by sponging to 83 horses of various breeds and ages with signs of clinical ringworm.
(9) Scales were taken from 128 human volunteers suffering from ringworm infections and grown on Sabourand's media to determine the type of organisms causing the disease.
(10) This case also demonstrates the benefit of corticosteroids for certain cases of inflammatory ringworm where the host's response to the fungus is exceptionally marked.
(11) Protective properties of a live, freeze-dried vaccine against ringworm, produced by Bioveta, Ivanovice na Hané, Czechoslovakia, were tested in a group of 422 calves.
(12) After an episode of cerebral toxoplasmosis for which he was treated with systemic steroids (because of cerebral oedema) he developed, over 16 days, a remarkably extensive ringworm of the trunk due to an unusual zoophilic dermatophyte, Microsporum (Trichophyton) gallinae.
(13) Moreover, 415 children were examined to determine the incidence of head lice, scabies, ringworm and catarrh - conditions which had been found to be common among children in the low-income group.
(14) The present work has looked at the distribution of ringworm infections among the Nigerian nomadic Fulani herdsmen.
(15) Fourteen cases are described in which the local application of corticosteroid preparations to ringworm infections of the skin have resulted in unusual clinical pictures.
(16) Out of 124 children examined, 36 had scalp lesions and 32 cases were confirmed as scalp-ringworm on direct microscopy.
(17) An account is given of the increase in incidence of scalp ringworm seen in London school children over a twelve year period.
(18) The use of these factors in preparation of efficacious fungicides used in the treatment of ringworm infections in man and animals is discussed.
(19) Eight agents of ringworms have been recorded in the horse.
(20) There have been few geographical surveys of ringworm fungi that have covered the world.