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Epidemiology of dermatomycoses of humans in Central Poland. Part IV. Onychomycosis due to dermatophytes
Author(s) -
Lupa S.,
Seneczko F.,
Jeske J.,
Głowacka Anna,
OchęckaSzymańska Aldona
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
mycoses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.13
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1439-0507
pISSN - 0933-7407
DOI - 10.1046/j.1439-0507.1999.00501.x
Subject(s) - trichophyton , dermatophyte , trichophyton tonsurans , incidence (geometry) , trichophyton rubrum , dermatology , epidemiology , medicine , etiology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , pathology , antifungal , physics , optics
The total number of dermatophytoses (7393) included 1567 (21.2%) cases of onychomycosis. Etiological factors in descending order were: Trichophyton rubrum (58.8%), Trichophyton mentagrophytes var . granulosum (26.2%), T. mentagrophytes var. quinckeanum , T. mentagrophytes var. interdigitale (5.1%), Trichophyton tonsurans (4.1%), Trichophyton violaceum (1.5%), Trichophyton spec. (1.1%). An increase in the incidence was noted between 1994 and 1996. At present, onychomycosis is third by incidence among all clinical forms of dermatophyte infections of skin and skin appendages in the Łódź region.