Ringworm of the Scalp in Adults

On 1117 Microsporum canis Infections in Montreal (1954–1961)

“…Likewise, P ipkin [69] described adult infections due to M. canis in women only, which closely parallels his observations on 39 cases of other mycotic scalp infections of adults, two of them having been found in males. Fox and Foivlkes [32], in their review of scalp in fections reported a ratio M :F = 1:2.…”

“…canis infects only prior to puberty as evidenced by 29 adult cases. Other authors [2,3,4,6,9,10,12,19,26,29,30,32,34,35,37,39,42,48,50,56,58,60,63,69,73,75,76,78,81,82,84,85,91,94,95,96,97] have reported such " reputedly rare" adult infections due to M. canis and Avram and Altcras [4] mention a rather high frequency among women w ithout giving any data on the num ber of infected women. The total num ber of cases reported by all the afore-mentioned authors is 26 in males, 51 in females and 109 of unrecorded sex, i.e.…”

Microsporum‐canis‐bedingte Tinea capitis et corporis bei einer immunsupprimierten erwachsenen Patientin

“…B. Z.n. Chemotherapie, Organtransplantation oder HI‐Virus‐Infektion) Patienten, sehr viel seltener auch immunkompetente Individuen [3–6,8,9].…”

“…Lebensjahr mit einer Bevorzugung des weiblichen Geschlechts [2]. Erkrankungen von Erwachsenen werden demgegenüber nur vereinzelt berichtet [3‐6].…”