Etiology of toe-web disease in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates: bacteriological and mycological studies
| Autor: | Abdulbari Bener, Ameen Am, Saarinen Ka, Philippe M. Frossard, G G Lestringant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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education.field_of_study
Aspergillus medicine.medical_specialty Intertrigo biology Pseudomonas aeruginosa business.industry education Hyperkeratosis Population General Medicine Trichophyton rubrum Disease medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Dermatology body regions medicine Etiology Optometry medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 7:38-45 |
| ISSN: | 1687-1634 1020-3397 |
| DOI: | 10.26719/2001.7.1-2.38 |
| Popis: | Wexamined and sampled 45 patients with toe-web intertrigo for bacteriological and mycological studies. Prominent isolated pathogens were the genus Candida [57.7%], genus Aspergillus [28.8%], Pseudomonas aeruginosa [26.7%] and coliforms [24.4%]. Dermatophytes scored 4.4% [Trichophyton rubrum]. There were 43 patents [95.5%] who presented with marked hyperkeratosis and maceration of the toe-webs involved. The tradition of the Emirati population of sitting cross-legged may, over time, induce in the toe-webs of overweight individuals a macerated pressure-reaction hyperkeratosis that is colonized by environmental germs. T. rubrum and T. mentagrophytes are uncommon in the Al-Ain environment and this may explain the rarity of dermatophytes in toe-web intertrigo in our study. |
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