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Mycological study of 519 cases of ringworm infections in Portugal

Significance of multiple localizations. Tinea as a single infection

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The A. studied 572 cases of dematomycosis and identified the causative agent in 519 (90.7%). “Mosaic fungi” were observed through direct examination only in scales from feet, independently of demonstration of dermatophytes; for this reason diagnostic value was not attached to those figures. The nutritional tests in 126 strains confirmedGeorg's results and was particularly useful for the identification ofT. tonsurans, T. megninii andT. verrucosum.

Account is given about the agents obtained from the different localizations.T. verrucosum was identified for the first time in Portugal, andT. megninii seemed more frequent than in other countries.

The A. found 66 cases with multiple localizations and assumes that tinea must be considered a single infection produced by dermatophytes in skin and its appendages independently of its clinical form or localization.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Lisbon

    Hermano Neves

  2. Department of Dermatology, Hospital Curry Cabral, Lisbon

    Hermano Neves

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Supported by a grant of the „Instituto de Alta Cultura”, Ministry of Education.

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Neves, H. Mycological study of 519 cases of ringworm infections in Portugal. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 13, 121–132 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02155509

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