Tinea capitis in Tripoli

Bhakhtaviziam, C.; Shafi, Muhammad; Mehta, Manan; Kumar, R.; Nagah, M.; Grew, Azza

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2230.1984.tb00760.x

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“…The incidences of positive family history (22%) and contact with pets (36.7%) among cases of TC in Kuwait are lower than those in the earlier study of Al‐Fouzan et al (4). However, the figures are comparable to other reported studies from the region (6, 7). Keeping cats as pets is a common, although declining, practice in Kuwait.…”

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Tinea Capitis among Children and Adolescents in the Farwaniya Region of Kuwait

Nawaf

Joshi

Zaki

et al. 2003

The Journal of Dermatology

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Analysis of 325 patients (182 males, 143 females) of mycologically proven tinea capitis (TC) seen over a period of two years from January 2001--December 2002 in the Farwaniya region of Kuwait is presented in this study. The age range was 8 months to 17 years. Peak incidence was observed in the 3-14 year age group (79.6%). Positive family history and contact with pets were noted in 22% and 36.7% of the cases, respectively. The non-inflammatory 'gray patch' variety was the most common clinical type, seen in 163 (50.2%) children, followed by the black-dot variant in 100 (30.2%) patients. A significant proportion of the cases (16.6%) had the uncommonly reported seborrheic dermatitis or dandruff like pattern. Highly inflammatory kerion was encountered infrequently (2.5%). Seven species of dermatophytes were isolated; Trichophyton violaceum in 135 (41.5%), followed by Microsporum canis in 89 (27.4%), Microsporum audouinii in 48 (14.8%), Trichophyton mentagrophytes var. mentagrophytes in 31 (9.5%), Trichophyton verrucosum in 15 (4.6%), Trichophyton tonsurans in 6 (1.9%) and Microsporum gypseum in 1 (0.3%) patient. T. violaceum was the most common fungus responsible for the black-dot variety (89/100) and kerion (4/8) patients. Three cases of kerion (33.3%) grew T. verrucosum. M. canis was the most common species isolated from the 'gray patch' cases (79/163; 48.5%) followed by almost equal prevalences of T. violaceum (16.6%), M. audouinii (15.3%), and T. mentagrophytes var. mentagrophytes (12.3%). Among the seborrheic type of cases, M. audouinii was the most common fungus isolated in 20/54 (37%) followed by T. violaceum in 15 (27.8%), T. mentagrophytes var. mentagrophytes in 9 (16.7%), M. canis in 8 (14.8%) and T. verrucosum and T. tonsurans in one (0.3%) patient each. The results are significantly different from those in earlier studies in Kuwait.

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Tinea Capitis among Children and Adolescents in the Farwaniya Region of Kuwait

Nawaf

Joshi

Zaki

et al. 2003

The Journal of Dermatology

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“…The preponderance of males with dermatophytoses in our study is in agreement with many reports (3,7,8). The reason for this is not certain, although for tinea capitis it has been attributed to easy implantation of spores because of short hair (8).…”

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“…As M. canis was the causative organism in most (79.8%) cases of tinea capitis, we expected a higher frequency of inflammatory infection. On the contrary, only seven cases of kerion were seen and not all were due to zoophilic species, as believed by a few investigators (7). Of interest, T. cutaneum, a nondermatophyte responsible for superficial mycosis (white piedra), was isolated from one patient with kerion.…”

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Dermatophytosis of Children in Kuwait

Al-Fouzan

Nanda

1992

Pediatric Dermatology

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Five hundred fifty-six children constituted 39.5% of total smear- and culture-positive cases of dermatophytosis and 0.6% of the total new dermatology outpatients seen over a period of five years. Males outnumbered females. The youngest child was a 20-day-old neonate (age range 20 days-12 yrs) with a peak of fungal infections seen in patients between 4 and 6 years of age. Microsporum canis was the most prevalent (70.5%) species, followed by Trichophyton violaceum, Microsporum audouinii, Trichophyton rubrum, and Epidermophyton floccosum. Rarely, other species were also isolated. Tinea capitis was the most common (73.7%) clinical type, followed by tinea corporis (19.1%), tinea faciei (3.4%), tinea cruris (3.4%), tinea pedis (0.9%), tinea unguium (0.9%), and tinea manus (0.2%). No racial variations were observed; however, the predominant species differed with the clinical types.

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“…Microsporum canis, the commonest isolate from scalp infections, has been reported by Kolemen et al 1 from the Eastern Province. However, T. violaceum was the commonest isolate reported in Egypt, 5,6 Libya, 7,8 and India.…”

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confidence: 99%