Review of dermatophytoses in Galicia from 1951 to 1987, and comparison with other areas of Spain
| Autor: | M. Pereiro Miguens, Mercedes Pereiro, M. Pereiro |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Veterinary medicine Adolescent Veterinary (miscellaneous) Epidermophyton floccosum Trichophyton rubrum medicine.disease_cause Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology Sex Factors Tinea Trichophyton Medicine Dermatomycoses Humans Microsporum Microsporum canis Epidermophyton Child Tinea barbae Aged Retrospective Studies biology business.industry Age Factors Infant Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Spain Child Preschool Dermatophyte Tinea capitis Female business Agronomy and Crop Science |
| Zdroj: | Mycopathologia. 113(2) |
| ISSN: | 0301-486X |
| Popis: | We have reviewed all the dermatophytoses diagnosed in Galicia during four consecutive 9-year periods 1951–86 and 1987. From 4571 patients, we isolated 3351 fungal strains belonging, in decreasing order of frequency, to the following dermatophyte species: Microsporum canis (25.5%), Trichophyton rubrum (24.6%), T. mentagrophytes (21.4%), Epidermophyton floccosum (11.8%), M. gypseum (5.2%), T. tonsurans (3.9%), T. verrucosum (3.1%), T. schoenleinii (2.5%), T. violaceum (1.2%), T. mengninii (0.3%), M. audouinii (0.2%), T. equinum (0.1%) and T. soudanense (0.1%). Tinea capitis has diminished in frequency since 1951, though there was been a slight increase since 1978; M. canis has always been the most common agent, and between 1951 and 1959 T. schoenleinii was also very frequent but is no longer found. The frequency of tinea corporis, on the other hand, has experienced a considerable increase. Its most common causal agents in the last few years have been T. mentagrophytes, M. canis and T. rubrum. Until 1977 the most common tinea cruris dermatophyte was E. floccosum, but since then it has been T. rubrum. The commonest tinea pedis dermatophytes have been T. rubrum and T. mentagrophytes. Tinea unguium and tinea barbae have been the most frequent dermatophytoses, and their commonest causal agents T. rubrum and T. mentagrophytes respectively. We have documented the distribution of the various causal agents by location of the lesions, age and source of the patients (private or National Health Service patients), and we have compared the results with those obtained in other regions of Spain. |
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