| tinea capitis in a dermatology center in the city of fortaleza, brazil: the role of trichophyton tonsurans. | over a 3-year period (march 1999 to march 2002), 944 patients with scalp lesions attended a dermatology reference center in the city of fortaleza, ceará, brazil. clinical specimens were examined at the specialized medical mycology center, federal university of ceará, fortaleza-ce, brazil, to detect patients with tinea capitis. | 2004 | 15304180 |
| [epidemiology and ecology of dermatophytoses in the city of fortaleza: trichophyton tonsurans as important emerging pathogen of tinea capitis]. | dermatophytosis is the most common skin infectious disturbance in the world. in this research 2,297 patients were evaluated with suspected clinical lesions of dermatophytosis. it was observed that, 534 (23.2%) patients tested positive for dermatophytes. t. rubrum was the most prevalent specie (49.6%; p < or = 0.05), followed by t. tonsurans (34.4%), m. canis (7%) and t. mentagrophytes (6.2%). when the species isolated was correlated with the respective anatomical localization, it was observed th ... | 2000 | 11064577 |