Abstract

BACKGROUND: The incidence and causative dermatophytes of tinea capitis has been changed with time.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical and mycological features of tinea capitis in Taegu.

METHODS: We evaluated the clinical and mycologic aspects of tinea capitis in 39 patients registered in Yeungnam University Hospital from January 1985 to June 1998.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The incidence of tinea capitis was 1.3% of 3,077 total dermatophytoses. The ratio of male to female patients was 1.6:1. Although most of the patients were children under the age of IS, adult patients with tinea capitis were 23.1% of the cases. Frontal scalp was the most frequent site of tinea capitis. The most common causative organism of tinea capitis was Microsporum canis, Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton verrucosum were isolated, also.

Keywords

Tinea capitis

KJMM 1998 December;3(2):132-138(7). Epub 2016 February 24
Copyright © 1998 by Korean Journal of Medical Mycology

Language

Korean/English

Author

Dong-Hoon Shin; Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea
Kyung-Soo Kim; Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea
Ki-Hong Kim; Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea

Corresponding

Dong-Hoon Shin, Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea.

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Acknowledgements

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Dong-Hoon Shin

Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea

Kyung-Soo Kim

Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea

Ki-Hong Kim

Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea

Since epub date 2016 February 24