| prevalence of undetected tinea capitis in a prospective school survey in madrid: emergence of new causative fungi. | from october 1994 to december 1996, a prospective study was undertaken in 10,000 unselected school children in madrid, aged between 2 and 16 years (mean +/- sd 8.5 +/- 3.6 years). fifty-two (0.52%) (including 13 immigrants from africa) had dermatophytes in the scalp: 33 (0.33%) (including 10 immigrants from africa) had tinea capitis and 19 were scalp carriers. almost half of the symptomatic cases were caused by trichophyton tonsurans (12 of 33 cases) and microsporum canis (16 of 33 cases). t. to ... | 1998 | 9640375 |
| [outbreak of trichophyton tonsurans ringworm in a health area of the community of madrid (spain)]. | trichophyton tonsurans is a dermatophyte fungus that can cause ringworm outbreaks. in our health area in september 2013, two cases of t. tonsurans ringworm were diagnosed in children who lived in a children's centre. | 2016 | 26774595 |
| prevalence of undetected tinea capitis in a school survey in spain. | from october 1994 to november 1995, a prospective study aiming to detect dermatophytes on the scalp was undertaken in 5000 unselected school children aged between 3 and 16 years (mean age 8.34 years, sd +/- 3.83). thirty-two (0.64%) had dermatophytes in the scalp, 22. (0.44%) had tinea capitis and 10 were asymptomatic scalp carriers. it is important to point out that 33% of the patients with tinea capitis and 60% of the asymptomatic scalp carriers also had ringworm in other body sites. there was ... | 1997 | 9375502 |