What's the difference between onychomycosis and ringworm?
Onychomycosis
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) (1) Proximal white subungual onychomycosis or superficial white onychomycosis, especially of the fingernails, is present.
(2) In proximal subungual onychomycosis, the fungus infects the cuticle and eponychium to reach the matrix where it becomes enclosed into the nail plate substance.
(3) Nineteen patients, of whom 17 had CMCC, had total dystrophic onychomycosis of at least two nails.
(4) However, the results of this study justify further trials of 'short-term' oral terbinafine therapy for onychomycosis.
(5) In conclusion, oral treatment with terbinafine is effective and generally well tolerated in patients with onychomycosis.
(6) This study was designed to investigate itraconazole nail kinetics in 39 patients with onychomycosis in relation to their therapeutic outcome.
(7) The overall prevalence of dermatophyte onychomycosis in the prospective survey of schoolchildren was 0.2%, confirming that this type of infection is very uncommon in children.
(8) From data available on the penetration of amorolfine and on the persistence of mycologically relevant tissue concentrations, it appeared likely that once- or twice-weekly application of nail lacquer should suffice to produce a satisfactory therapeutic effect in onychomycosis.
(9) A combination of alkali treatment and proteinase K digestion was used to solubilize nail samples from patients with onychomycosis treated orally with terbinafine.
(10) The tape strippings were taken at various intervals of time from the test area, and applied on the agar surface which was priorly inoculated with Trichophyton mentagrophytes isolated from a patient with the symptoms of onychomycosis.
(11) Terbinafine is an allylamine antifungal compound shown to be effective in the oral treatment of onychomycosis.
(12) Our results demonstrate that, for toenail onychomycosis, a treatment period of 12 weeks is sufficient.
(13) Four of five with invasive pulmonary disease, two of two with skeletal disease, one of two with pleural disease, one of one with pericardial, sinus, mastoid, or hepatosplenic aspergillosis, and one of one with onychomycosis responded.
(14) The clinical efficacy and safety of 8% ciclopirox olamine nail liquor were evaluated in 100 cases with finger (or great toe) onychomycosis.
(15) Altogether 157 patients with onychomycosis affecting not more than 80% of the surface area of nail with intact lunula and matrix were treated once weekly for up to 6 months with amorolfine nail lacquer (2 or 5%) in a double-blind randomized design.
(16) Fungal agents causing onychomycosis in an Indian population were studied in a hospital based study.
(17) In this paper we report a case of onychomycosis caused by Chaetomium globosum.
(18) A verrucose dermatitis of the face, accompanied by onychomycosis was observed in a 30 years old male living in Algeria.
(19) Nail avulsion followed by long-term occlusive application of ciclopiroxolamine cleared the onychomycosis, whereas the sole and palm infection was resistant to ciclopiroxolamine and glutaraldehyde treatment.
(20) Hyperkeratotic scabies and onychomycosis were associated in an immunosuppressed patient.
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.
(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.