| isolation of dermatophytes and other keratinophilic fungi from surface sediments of the shatt al-arab river and its creeks at basrah, iraq. | twenty-five sediment samples were taken from randomly selected sites in the shatt al-arab river and its creeks and analysed for dermatophytes and related keratinophilic fungi. the results revealed that out of 25 samples only 13 (52%) yielded dermatophytes and related keratinophilic fungi. a total of nine species in four genera were isolated. the most frequent genera isolated in this study were chrysosporium and its teleomorph aphanoascus. the species most frequently found were aphanoascus fulves ... | 1995 | 7477095 |
| tinea capitis in basrah, iraq. | tinea capitis is the most common type of dermatophytosis constituting 35.2% (173/491) of all cases of dermatophytosis seen at two out-patients dermatological clinics of the basrah general hospital and at two private dermatological clinics between october 1994 and december 1995. males were more commonly affected than females represented by 60 and 40%, respectively. out of 173 mycologically positive cases, 143 specimens were culture-positive, represented by five dermatophyte species; trichophyton ... | 1999 | 10424105 |
| characteristics of dermatophytoses in basrah, iraq. | a total of 1199 clinical specimens were collected from 1144 patients clinically diagnosed as cases of superficial cutaneous mycoses in basrah (iraq). the collected specimens were examined for the etiologic agents of dermatophytoses by direct microscopy and culture. a total of 237 isolates representing eight species of dermatophytes as a causative agents of skin and nails infections were isolated. among the tinea infections, tinea corporis and tinea cruris were the most common types of dermatophy ... | 1999 | 10424106 |