Tinha do couro cabeludo em crianças de Goiânia, Brasil

Resumo

During the period January 1999 to July 2002 a total de 164 cases of Tinea capitis were diagnosed by mycological examination in Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública of the Universidade Federal de Goiás. Of the 164 patients 94 (57.3%) were males, with an age of 3 months to 13 years. Laboratory studies were performed by direct examination with 20% KOH and cultivated on Mycobiotic agar medium and Sabouraud dextrose agar with chloramphenicol. The following species were identified: Microsporum canis (71.3%), Trichophyton tonsurans (11%), Trichophyton mentagrophytes (7.9%), Trichophyton rubrum (6.7%), and Microsporum gypseum (3%). Our study showed that the most frequent rise of scalp infection was a zoophylic fungi, called Microsporum canis.

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Palavras-chave

Dermatófitos, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Microsporum canis, Trichophyton tonsurans, Dermatophytes, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Microsporum canis, Trichophyton tonsurans

Citação

DIAS, Tatiana; FERNANDES, Orionalda de Fátima Lisboa; SOARES, Ailton José; PASSOS, Xisto Sena; COSTA, Milce; SOUZA, Lucia Kioko Hasimoto e; SILVA, Maria Do Rosário Rodrigues. Tinha do couro cabeludo em crianças de Goiânia - Brasil. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Uberaba, v. 36, n. 6, p. 653-655, nov./dez. 2003.