European Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 33-38 (6 pages) In an unusual nosocomial outbreak, 13 staff and 11 patients in an acute and chronic health care facility were infected ...

—Scalp scaling, pruritus, and inflammation are symptoms shared by numerous other disorders, but once tinea capitis is considered, diagnosis and treatment are not complicated. Reviewed by Roger S. Ho, ...

A 6-year-old boy presented with a rash on his scalp and hair loss. Areas of bright green fluorescence were seen on Wood’s lamp examination. Infection with Microsporum canis was identified on molecu ...

This study was led by Dr Xin Zhou, Prof. Sybren de Hoog (Radboud UMC Center of Expertise for Mycology, Netherlands), and Prof. Peiying Feng (Sun Yat-Sen University, China). Through comparative genomic ...

Fungal infections affecting the skin, hair and nails remain a major global health concern, with dermatophytes representing a highly prevalent group of pathogens. These organisms invade keratinised ...

SINCE Margarot and Deveze 1, studying tinea capitis in man, discovered in 1925 that infected hairs would fluoresce upon exposure to ultra-violet light, extensive use has been made of this phenomenon ...

Mycologia, the official journal of the Mycological Society of America, publishes papers on all aspects of the fungi, including lichens. Subjects appropriate to the journal are fungal physiology and ...