| [the etiology and epidemiology of dermatophytoses in goiânia, go, brazil]. | dermatophytoses are superficial infections that may lead to lesions of keratinized tissues, like skin, hair and nails. a total of 6068 individuals from goiânia, go, with suspected dermatophytic lesions were examined over a period of five years (1993-1997) in order to determine the incidence and etiology of dermatophytosis. material collected from different body parts was submitted to direct microscopic examination using koh, cultured in sabouraud agar and microscopically examined for colony morp ... | 1999 | 10495665 |
| [epidemiology and etiology of dermatophytosis in goiânia, go, brazil]. | dermatophytes are a group of closely related fungi that have the capacity to invade keratinized tissue (skin, hair, and nails) of humans and animals to produce infections called dermatophytosis. in order to review the etiology and epidemiology of dermatophytosis in goiânia, go, 1955 specimens with diagnostic suspicion of dermatophytic lesions, were collected from january to december, 1999, from the mycology laboratory in the institute of tropical pathology and public health, federal university o ... | 2002 | 11873256 |
| [tinea capitis in children from goiânia, brazil]. | during the period january 1999 to july 2002 a total de 164 cases of tinea capitis were diagnosed by mycological examination in instituto de patologia tropical e saúde pública of the universidade federal de goiás. of the 164 patients 94 (57.3%) were males, with an age of 3 months to 13 years. laboratory studies were performed by direct examination with 20% koh and cultivated on mycobiotic agar medium and sabouraud dextrose agar with chloramphenicol. the following species were identified: microspo ... | 2003 | 15049102 |
| antifungal activity of ocimum gratissimum towards dermatophytes. | the development of more effective and less toxic antifungal agents is required for the treatment of dermatophytosis. plants and their preparations have been used as medicines against infectious diseases. extracts of ocimum gratissimum leaves were investigated for in vitro antifungal activity, using agar dilution technique against dermatophytes. the extracts (hexane, chloroform fractions, the essential oil and eugenol) produced antifungal activities against microsporum canis, m. gypseum, trichoph ... | 2005 | 15842332 |
| epidemiological and mycological data of onychomycosis in goiania, brazil. | onychomycosis defined as fungal infection of the nail represents more than 50% of all onychopathies. epidemiological studies have shown that this mycosis is worldwide in occurrence, but with geographical variation in distribution. the direct microscopy and culture of the nail samples were performed to identify the causative agent. out of 2273 patients with nail infection examined between january 2000 and december 2004 in goiania, state of goias, brazil, diagnosis of onychomycosis was confirmed i ... | 2010 | 19207842 |