Open AccessTinea capitis in Iraq: laboratory results
Author(s) -
Haitham Fathi,
Abdulghani Mohamed Alsamarai
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
eastern mediterranean health journal/eastern mediterranean health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1687-1634
pISSN - 1020-3397
DOI - 10.26719/2000.6.1.138
Subject(s) - tinea capitis , trichophyton tonsurans , trichophyton , trichophyton rubrum , medicine , dermatology , antifungal
A school survey of 4461 primary-school children was carried out in which 204 cases of tinea capitis were clinically diagnosed. All cases were cultured and examined microscopically in order to compare the validity of the two methods. Microscopy detected 92 positive cases [45.1%], whereas culture detected 105 cases [51.4%]. We also isolated and identified the species causing tinea capitis in our sample. These included Trichophyton verrucosum [38 cases], T: rubrum [22 cases], T mentagrophytes var. mentagrophytes [12 cases]and T: tonsurans [11 cases]. Our results are compared with other studies