| nonfluorescent tinea capitis in charleston, sc. a diagnostic problem. | statistics gathered at the medical university of south carolina from 1973 to 1978 indicate a dramatic change in the etiologic agents of tinea capitis in charleston since the 1950s. the preponderant agent is now trichophyton tonsurans, which produces lesions that are not fluorescent in a wood's lamp examination (long-wave ultraviolet). trichophyton tonsurans caused 90.6% of 265 culture-proved cases of tinea capitis in the 1970s, but in the 1950s it was responsible for only 1.6% of 378 cases. the ... | 1979 | 480604 |