Avtor/Urednik		Veller-Fornasa, C; Scarpa, S; Belloni-Fortina, A; Biasinutto, C; Peserico, A
Naslov		A three-year observation of skin mycoses at the Padua University dermatology department
Tip		članek
Vir		Acta Dermatovenerol Alp Pannon Adriat
Vol. in št.		Letnik 3, št. 4
Leto izdaje		1994
Obseg		str. 181-7
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		The paper reports on the incidence of skin mycoses and their causal agents in the territory of Padua over a 34-month period of observation. We observed 332 cases of mycosis (198 females and 134 males, age range 1-81 years), which accounted for 1,47 percent of the total population of patients presenting to our department. In 174 cases yeasts were isolated (129 cases of Candida albicans, 15 of C. guillermondii, 12 of C. parapsilosis, 4 of C. krusei, 10 of Rhodotorula rubra, 2 of Trichosporon beigelii and 2 of Torulopsis glabrata); in 156 cases were isolated dermatophytes (52 cases of Microsporum canis, 45 of T. mentagrophytes, 17 of Epidermophyton floccosoum, 24 of Trychophyton rubrum, 4 of T. verrucosum, 4 of T. equinum, 4 of T. interdigitalis, 2 of M. ferrugineum, 2 of T. violaceum, 2 of M. audouinii); in 2 cases were isolated moulds (Aspergillus fumigatus). Our study confirms a gihg incidence of dermatophytoses due to M. canis, which was isolated most frequently in tinea corporis (36 cases 48,65 percent) and tinea capitis (14 cases 58,30 percent), and never detected in tinea pedis or tinea unguium. E. floccosum was a frequent finding in tinea cruris (4 cases 66,70 percent) and also occurred in 2 cases of tinea capitis. Cases of yeast-borne pathologies are also mentioned: these were in association with Gram-negative bacteria in 18.4 percent of cases, while in 21.8 percent it proved impossible to detect any predisposing cause of the infection.
Deskriptorji		DERMATOMYCOSES DERMATOPHYTES ITALY MICROSPORUM TRICHOPHYTON