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AN UNUSUAL CASE OF DOUBLE TRICHOPHYTOSIS IN BOTH HUSBAND AND WIFE
Author(s) -
Crozier W. J.,
Coats H. P.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1982.tb00605.x
Subject(s) - wife , medicine , dermatophyte , dermatology , theology , philosophy
S ummary “Double” or “mixed” fungal infections occur with a small hut definite frequency. In 1979, Crozier and Searls 1 reported that dermatophytosis infections due to more than one dermatophyte per patient occurred in two to three per cent of cases. However, the chance occurrence of both a husband and wife having double trichophytosis must be very unusual. We have had such a case and, interestingly, the two species of Trichophylon were not the same two for both husband and wife.