Author/Editor		Dolenc-Voljč, Mateja
Title		Odnos med povzročitelji in nekaterimi epidemiološkimi dejavniki pri bolnikih z onihomikozo
Type		monografija
Place		Ljubljana
Publisher		Medicinska fakulteta
Publication year		2001
Volume		str. 63
Language		slo
Abstract		Onychomycosis is a frequent chronic mycotic nail infection caused by different fungi. Its rising incidence and better treatment possibilities have drawn more attention to this disease in recent years. Besides exposition to fungi there are other predisposing factors for nail infection, such as nail traumas, immunodeficiency, diabetes, peripheral vascular diseases, some endocrinological diseases and a genetic predisposition. The aim of our study was to assess some characteristics of onychomycosis in our patients and to estimate a possible link between the type of the.isolated fungi and various characteristics of the patients - their age, gender, the duration of infection and the number of affected nails, the patients' occupation and the frequency of predisposing diseases. We wanted to analyze the frequency of nail diseases in the nearest relatives as well. We retrospectively examined 442 medical records of patients with onychomycosis treated in the Outpatient Clinic for Dermatomycosis at the Department of Dermatovenereology in Ljubljana in the period from 1980 to 1995. Onychomycosis was present on toenails in 68 % of the patients, on toenails and fingernails simultaneously in 20 % and on fingernails only in 12 %. The causative pathogens resembled those found in other European countries. The most common pathogens were dermatophytes, which accounted for ?2 % of the positive cultures. They were isolated in 93 % of the cases of toenail onychomycosis, in 64 % of the cases of toenail and fingernail onychomycosis, and 11 % of the cases of fingernail onychomycosis. Trichophyton rubrum was isolated most often. Yeasts were present in 24 % of the positive cultures, Candida albicans being predominant. They were isolated most commonly in female patients with fingernail onychomycosis. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters).
Descriptors		ONYCHOMYCOSIS TRICHOPHYTON CANDIDA ALBICANS AGE FACTORS SEX FACTORS RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES FUNGI DIABETES MELLITUS VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY PSORIASIS