Fungal (Onychomycosis) and Other Infections Involving the Nail Apparatus

Hay, Roderick J.; Baran, Robert; Heneke, E.

doi:10.1002/9780470694947.ch4

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“…Sock samples were cultured using Sabouraud's dextrose agar (Novamed Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel) without antibiotics. Fungi were identified according to the morphological characteristics of the different fungi …”

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The effect of domestic laundry processes on fungal contamination of socks

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Tinea pedis is a common chronic skin disease. The role of contaminated clothes as a possible source of reinfection is not fully understood. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of domestic laundering at different temperatures in the eradication of fungal pathogens from contaminated socks. Samples from 81 socks worn by patients suffering from tinea pedis underwent domestic laundering at either 40 °C or 60 °C. The socks were dried at room temperature; fungal cultures were taken from two samples from, respectively, the toe and heel areas of the socks. Samples from socks washed at 40 °C revealed 29 (36%) positive fungal cultures, of which 14 came from the toe and 15 from the heel areas of socks. Trichophyton rubrum was isolated in four specimens, and Aspergillus spp. were found in 20 (70%) specimens. Samples from the same socks washed at 60 °C revealed five (6%) positive fungal cultures, of which three came from the toe and two from the heel areas of socks. Only Aspergillus spp. were detected. Yeasts were eradicated at 40 °C. Contravening current trends for energy saving and environmental protection, laundering at low temperatures is not effective in eradicating fungal pathogens, which requires high-temperature laundering at 60 °C.

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The effect of domestic laundry processes on fungal contamination of socks

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“…2 As these classifications involved both clinical features as well as a proposed aetiology it should be extended to take account of new data which have accumulated over the past 25 years. The basis for this and subsequent classifications was the pattern of nail plate involvement by mode and site of invasion rather than by fungal aetiology.…”

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A new classification of onychomycosis

Baran

Hay

Tosti

et al. 1998

British Journal of Dermatology

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This new classification of onychomycosis is a development of previous schemes and depends on the recognition of different clinical patterns of nail plate involvement associated with fungal infection as well as histopathology. The main types are distal and lateral subungual onychomycosis, superficial onychomycosis, proximal subungual onychomycosis, endonyx onychomycosis and total dystrophic onychomycosis. In addition, patients may show different combinations of these patterns. The identification of clinical patterns of disease may be useful in defining differences in clinical behaviour, treatment response and associated disease.

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“…Several cases in which ANs were the accidental cause of foreign body in palate, larynx and aspiration in patients, mostly childreen, have been reported 7,8 . In this study, we found that almost all the patients (98.5%) referred due to nail changes that appeared after removal of ANs suffered from fungal infection.These results are much higher than in the general population in which between 18% and 40% of all nail disorders are onychomycosis 9 or in other diseases such as psoriasis in which onychomycosis in psoriatic patients with nail involvement was as high as 13% to 27% 10 . Furthermore, the incidence of Candida spp.…”

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