Abstract

Background: The prevalence and clinical characteristics of dermatomycosis are not static but change under the influence of various forces such as geographic factor, social environment and development in prophylaxis and treatment.

Objective: To investigate the present status of dermatomycosis and changes on the prevalence, sex, age distribution and causative organisms.

Methods: We performed clinical and mycological studies on 7,785 cases of dermatomycosis among outpatients of Dermatologic clinic of Chonnam University Hospital for 10 years, from January 2001 to December 2010.

Results: The incidence of dermatomycosis was 12.5% of outpatients and show the highest incidence over 7th decades (24.2%). The incidence of tinea pedis (24.1%) was the highest, followed by onychomycosis (18.1%). Coexisting fungal infections were found 693 (9.2%) and the cases of tinea pedis with onychomycosis were the most common. The positive rate of KOH examination was 49.7% and the positive rate of culture on Sabouraud's dextrose agar media was 36.5%. Trichophyton rubrum was the most common causative organism of dermatomycosis (51.1%), followed by Candida species (33.2%).

Conclusions: Consideration of the changes between current and past epidemiologic, clinical and mycological features in the cutaneous fungal infections are important to investigational efforts, diagnosis, and treatment.

Keywords

Clinical and mycological studies Dermatomycosis

KJMM 2013 June;18(2):30-38(9). Epub 2016 February 17
Copyright © 2013 by Korean Journal of Medical Mycology

Language

Korean/English

Author

Yong Woo Lee; Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Sook Jung Yun; Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Jee Bum Lee; Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Seong Jin Kim; Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Seung Chul Lee; Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Young Ho Won; Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea

Corresponding

Young Ho Won, Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea. Tel: +82-62-220-6698, Fax: +82-62-222-4058, e-mail: yhwon@chonnam.ac.kr

Publication history

Received 20 February 2013; Revised 28 May 2013; Accepted 29 May 2013.

Acknowledgements

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Yong Woo Lee

Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea

Sook Jung Yun

Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea

Jee Bum Lee

Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea

Seong Jin Kim

Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea

Seung Chul Lee

Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea

Young Ho Won

Departments of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea

Since epub date 2016 February 17