Tinea Capitis Due to Microsporum vanbreuseghemii: Report of Two Cases

Abstract

Two cases of dermatophytosis caused by Microsporum vanbreuseghemii are reported. A 7-year-old boy and his brother were examined for tinea capitis. Hair samples and skin scrapings were collected from each patient to microscopy and culture. Direct microscopic examination of the hairs using lactophenol revealed an ectothrix invasion. Cultures inoculated with portions of clinical material yielded M. vanbreuseghemii after 2 weeks. The identification of the fungi were based on colony morphology on mycobiotic agar, microscopic characteristic on slide cultures, biochemical reactions and hair perforation tests.

Potential of propolis antifungal activity for clinical applications

“…Epidermophyton floccosum Anthropophilic Tinea pedis, tinea cruris, tinea corporis and onychomycosis (Havlickova et al, 2008;Marsella, 2014) Microsporum audouinii Tinea capitis (Elewski, 2000) Microsporum boullardii Geophilic Tinea capitis (rarely) (Zaki et al, 2009) Microsporum canis Zoophilic Tinea capitis, tinea corporis, tinea barbae, tinea faciei, tinea manuum and onychomycosis (Marsella, 2014) Microsporum cookei Geophilic Tinea corporis (rarely) (Frey, 1971) Microsporum distortum Zoophilic Tinea corporis and capitis (Elewski, 2000;Menna & Marples, 1954) Microsporum equinum Tinea capitis (O'Grady & Warin, 1972) Microsporum ferrugineum Anthropophilic Tinea capitis (Elewski, 2000;Rezaei-Matehkolaei et al, 2012) Microsporum fulvum Geophilic Tinea corporis and tinea capitis (Moore & Conrad, 1940;Nouripour-Sisakht et al, 2013) Microsporum gallinae Zoophilic Tinea corporis, tinea capitis, tinea cruris and onychomycosis (Miyasato et al, 2011) Microsporum ferrugineum Anthropophilic Tinea capitis (Elewski, 2000;Rezaei-Matehkolaei et al, 2012) Microsporum langeronii Anthropophilic Tinea capitis (Ménan et al, 2002) Microsporum nanum Geophilic Tinea capitis and tinea corporis (Ajello et al, 1964) Microsporum persicolor Zoophilic Tinea capitis, tinea corporis and tinea pedis (Kane et al, 1987) Microsporum praecox Tinea corporis and tinea capitis (rarely) (Padhye et al, 1989;Vroey et al, 1983) Microsporum racemosum Geophilic Tinea corporis and onychomycosis (Nenoff et al, 2014) Microsporum rivalieri Anthropophilic Tinea capitis (Zaias et al, 1966) Microsporum vanbreuseghemii Geophilic Tinea capitis (Gräser et al, 1998;Naseri et al, 2012) Trichophyton ajelloi Tinea corporis (Presbury & Young, 1978) Trichophyton bullosum Zoophilic Tinea corporis (rarely) (Sitterle et al, 2012) Trichophyton concentricum Anthropophilic Tinea imbricata (type of tinea corporis) (Hay et al, 1983) Trichophyton eboreum...…”

She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: On the Dualistic Asexual/Sexual Nature of Dermatophyte Fungi

“…Lophophyton gallinae is the only species of the Lophophyton genus [20]. It is a zoophilic species that has been isolated from a squirrel, a dog, a cat, humans, and soil (Table 2) [78][79][80][81]. The sexual cycle of L. gallinae is heterothallic and was observed on hair and soil plates, oatmeal salts agar, diluted Sabouraud dextrose agar with salts, and diluted Pablum cereal agar with salts [39,78].…”