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Epidemiological, Clinical and Mycological Profile of Dermatophytic Infections: A Cross-Sectional Study in Tertiary Care Hospital [PDF]

Walawalkar International Medical Journal, 2021
Background: Superficial fungal infections of skin, hair and nail due to dermatophytes are known as dermatophytosis. The sudden increase in the incidence of dermatophytosis in India poses an enormous challenge to healthcare professionals.
Nishigandha Haridas1, Nitin Chaudhari1, Nachiket Palaskar1, Chandrakant Poulkar1, Swapna Khatu, Aditya Holani1 and Abhishek Patokar1
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A clinical and mycological study of dermatophytic infections

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2014
Background: Dermatophytoses refer to superficial fungal infection of keratinized tissues caused by keratinophilic dermatophytes. According to observations worldwide, dermatophytoses are the most common of the superficial fungal infections.
KAK Surendran, Ramesh M Bhat, Rekha Boloor, B Nandakishore, D Sukumar   +4 more
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Clinical study of Tinea capitis in Northern Karnataka: A three-year experience at a single institute

Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2013
Background: Tinea capitis is a superficial fungal infection of the hair follicle of scalp. Most of the dermatophytosis do not have such age propensity as tinea capitis which almost invariably involves the paediatric age group.
Varadraj V Pai, Keloji Hanumanthayya, Raghavendra S Tophakhane, Namrata W Nandihal, Naveen Narayan Shetty Kikkeri   +4 more
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Clinical Course, Antifungal Susceptibility, and Genomic Sequencing of Trichophyton indotineae

JAMA dermatology
Key Points Question What are the clinical features, antifungal susceptibility, and genome sequencing of Trichophyton indotineae? Findings In this case series of 11 patients in New York City, severe disease, ineffective standard antifungal treatments, and
A. Caplan, Gabrielle C. Todd, Y. Zhu, Michelle Sikora, C. Akoh, J. Jakus, S. Lipner, Kayla Babbush Graber, Karen P. Acker, Ayana E Morales, R. M. Rolón, Lars F Westblade, Maira Fonseca, Abigail Cline, J. A. Gold, Shawn R. Lockhart, Dallas J. Smith, T. Chiller, William G. Greendyke, S. R. Manjari, N. Banavali, S. Chaturvedi   +21 more
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Spread of Terbinafine-Resistant Trichophyton mentagrophytes Type VIII (India) in Germany–“The Tip of the Iceberg?”

Journal of Fungi, 2020
Chronic recalcitrant dermatophytoses, due to Trichophyton (T.) mentagrophytes Type VIII are on the rise in India and are noteworthy for their predominance. It would not be wrong to assume that travel and migration would be responsible for the spread of T.
P. Nenoff, S. Verma, A. Ebert, A. Süss, Eleni Fischer, Elke Auerswald, Stephanie Dessoi, Wencke Hofmann, S. Schmidt, K. Neubert, R. Renner, S. Sohl, Uta Hradetzky, U. Krusche, H. Wenzel, Annegret Staginnus, J. Schaller, V. Müller, Christiane Tauer, Matthias Gebhardt, K. Schubert, Zaid Z Almustafa, R. Stadler, A. Fuchs, C. Sitaru, C. Retzlaff, C. Overbeck, T. Neumann, Anette Kerschnitzki, S. Krause, M. Schaller, B. Walker, T. Walther, L. Köhler, M. Albrecht, U. Willing, M. Monod, K. Salamin, A. Burmester, D. Koch, C. Krüger, S. Uhrlass   +41 more
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Clinical Isolate of a Multi-Antifungal-Resistant Trichophyton rubrum

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2022
The multi-antifungal drug-resistant strain (NUBS21012) of Trichophyton rubrum was isolated from a patient with recurrent tinea corporis. The resistant strain encoded Phe at codon 393 instead of Leu (L393F) in the squalene epoxidase (SQLE) gene.
R. Kano, Utako Kimura, H. Noguchi, M. Hiruma   +3 more
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Isolation and Characterization of Dermatophytes in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, South India [PDF]

International Journal of Scientific Research in Dental and Medical Sciences
Background and aim: The study was done to identify and characterize the fungal species causing the various clinical types of Dermatophytosis by microscopy, culture and biochemical tests.
Sreedevi Vijayan Selvajyothi, Anuja Elizabeth George, Cicili Lalitha, Seema Ambikatmajan Nayar, Sajan Muhammad Kamaludeen   +4 more
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An in vitro and in silico study of anti-dermatophytic activity of gossypol from fruits of Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Correa

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2021
Objective: To isolate, purify, and characterize gossypol from the fruits of Thespesia populnea (L) Sol. ex Correa, test its anti- dermatophytic activity, identify its targets on the dermatophyte, and confirm the binding of gossypol with the fungal target
R Anuthara, Sebastian Jose Midhun, Jyothis Mathew   +2 more
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Potential Sexual Transmission of Antifungal-Resistant Trichophyton indotineae

Emerging Infectious Diseases
We describe a case of tinea genitalis in an immunocompetent woman in Pennsylvania, USA. Infection was caused by Trichophyton indotineae potentially acquired through sexual contact.
Stephanie Spivack, J. A. Gold, Shawn R. Lockhart, Priyanka Anand, Laura A. S. Quilter, Dallas J. Smith, Briana Bowen, Jane M Gould, Ahmed Eltokhy, A. Gamal, M. Retuerto, Thomas McCormick, Mahmoud Ghannoum   +12 more
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Epidemiologic surveillance of cutaneous fungal infection and its causative agents in patients referred to Razi laboratory, Rasht, Iran: A retrospective study from 2016-2021

Journal of Current Oncology and Medical Sciences, 2022
Introduction: Information on epidemiologic trends of dermatophytosis and its causative agents is essential for the healthcare system to improve its knowledge of associated complications. The main purpose of this study was to determine the distribution of
Reyhaneh Ghadarjani, Hojat Eftekhari , Rana Rafiei , Abbas Darjani , Narges Alizadeh , Mitra Elyasi , Parnian Jamilrad , Kaveh Gharaei Nejad   +7 more
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