| the auckland skin clinic tinea pedis and erythrasma study. | three hundred consecutive patients attending the auckland hospital dermatology clinic were examined clinically and microbiologically for evidence of interdigital or plantar mycological or bacterial infection. one hundred and nine patients were shown by laboratory investigation to have an infection. of these, only 89 displayed clinical signs of infection. erythrasma, a desquamative condition caused by corynebacterium minutissimum, was the commonest infection in this study. the commonest dermatoph ... | 1990 | 2385417 |