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DISTRIBUTION OF DERMATOPHYTES AND CANDIDA SPORES IN THE ENVIRONMENT
Author(s) -
MIDGLEY GILLIAN,
CLAYTON YVONNE M.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1972.tb15418.x
Subject(s) - candida albicans , spore , microbiology and biotechnology , scalp , fungus , biology , dermatophyte , biological dispersal , aspergillus , dermatology , medicine , botany , population , environmental health
Summary.— The dispersal into the environment of spores of dermatophytes and Candida albicans from patients with mycotic skin infections is demonstrated by the culture of samples from the air and from normal areas of the body. C. albicans is found to be recovered more frequently than dermatophytes. The recovery of these fungi is also recorded from sweep plates of bedding and brush samples of the scalps of normal children in communities which harbour cases of scalp ringworm.