| [dermatophytosis in a urban setting: prospective study of 135 cases]. | during a period of one year all patients referred to the dermatology department with the diagnosis of dermatophytosis were studied to determine the incidence. etiology, and epidemiology of these infections in the northeast of madrid. we have evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of the direct examination with 10% koh with respect to the culture as well as the correlation between the clinical diagnosis and the result of the mycologic examination. the annual incidence was 8.4 cases per 10,000 ... | 1990 | 2152479 |
| 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 |
| 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 |