Epidemicity and Clinical Features of T. Rubrum Infections in the Tropics

Desai, S.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-4362.1966.tb05222.x

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“…A survey of primary school children in Kuwait (Selim & AlShazely, 1973) Taylor, Kotrajaras & Jotisankasa, 1968). In India and Asia generally, T. violaceum is the main cause of scalp ringworm (84% reported from Pondicherry) although M. ferrugineum is predominant in China and Japan (Khan & Anwar, 1968;Desai, 1966). However, many surveys report very little tinea capitis, whereas tinea corporis appears to be much more important.…”

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“…In females, tightness of saris around the waist provided constant irritation and sweating; 80 % of female infections were in the waist area. T. rubrum is the main cause of tinea corporis in India; a survey in 1966 (Desai, 1966) recorded an incidence of 53 % in adults and 14 % in children, and these percentages dropped only (Ridley, Wilson & Harrington, 1961) but T. tonsurans has been recorded more often from adults. A survey in South Australia (Donald, Shepherd & Brown, 1959) recorded an incidence of infections due to T. violaceum approaching that found in North Africa, but these were found mainly in the aboriginal population.…”

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Geographical distribution of the dermatophytes: a review

Philpot

1978

J. Hyg.

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In these days of rapid transit from continent to continent, and the increasing mobility of people, agents of disease are no longer geographically restricted. Disease contracted half way across the world may become manifest in a country in which the pathogen is not normally found. Thus knowledge of the geographical distribution of pathogens becomes increasingly important when a diagnosis is being made. This is as true of ringworm fungi as of any other group of micro-organisms. In the last 12 years, in the Mycological Reference Laboratory, an increasing number of exotic dermatophytes have been seen, related in part at least to the great increase in the number of non-British residents.

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