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Dermatophytosis in northern Greece during the decade 1981–1990

Despina Devliotou‐Panagiotidou, Thalia Koussidou‐Eremondi, G Badillet

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Summary.Dermatophytic infections are very common in Greece. In the Mycological Laboratory of the Venereal and Skin Diseases Hospital in Thessaloniki, 6572 isolates of different dermatophytes were obtained from 17 120 patients examined. It is suggested that 5% of the people who present with skin problems in Greece suffer from dermatophyte infections. They are frequent causative agents of tinea pedis, tinea cruris, tinea corporis, tinea capitis and tinea unguium. In this paper, the species, the number and the prevalence of the dermatophytes were studied according to location and sex of the patients. The contribution of dermatophyte infections to the overall incidence of superficial fungal infection over 10 years was also studied. Zusasmmenfassung.Dermatophyten‐Infektionen kommen in Griechenland sehr häufig vor. Im Mykologie‐Labor des Krankenhauses für Haut‐ und Geschlechtskrankheiten in Thessaloniki wurden von 17120 untersuchten Patienten 6572 Dermatophytenstämme isoliert. Daraus wird gefolgert, daß in Griechenland 5% der Personen, die Hautprobleme präsentieren, unter Dermatophytosen leiden. Die häufigsten Lokalisationen sind Tinea pedis, cruris, corporis, capitis und unguium. In dieser Studie werden Anzahl und Artzugehörigkeit der isolierten Dermatophyten sowie die Dermatophytosenfrequenz abhängig von Lokalisation und Geschlecht der Patienten dargestellt.

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Summary.Dermatophytic infections are very common in Greece. In the Mycological Laboratory of the Venereal and Skin Diseases Hospital in Thessaloniki, 6572 isolates of different dermatophytes were obtained from 17 120 patients examined. It is suggested that 5% of the people who present with skin problems in Greece suffer from dermatophyte infections. They are frequent causative agents of tinea pedis, tinea cruris, tinea corporis, tinea capitis and tinea unguium. In this paper, the species, the number and the prevalence of the dermatophytes were studied according to location and sex of the patients. The contribution of dermatophyte infections to the overall incidence of superficial fungal infection over 10 years was also studied. Zusasmmenfassung.Dermatophyten‐Infektionen kommen in Griechenland sehr häufig vor. Im Mykologie‐Labor des Krankenhauses für Haut‐ und Geschlechtskrankheiten in Thessaloniki wurden von 17120 untersuchten Patienten 6572 Dermatophytenstämme isoliert. Daraus wird gefolgert, daß in Griechenland 5% der Personen, die Hautprobleme präsentieren, unter Dermatophytosen leiden. Die häufigsten Lokalisationen sind Tinea pedis, cruris, corporis, capitis und unguium. In dieser Studie werden Anzahl und Artzugehörigkeit der isolierten Dermatophyten sowie die Dermatophytosenfrequenz abhängig von Lokalisation und Geschlecht der Patienten dargestellt.

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Summary.Dermatophytic infections are very common in Greece. In the Mycological Laboratory of the Venereal and Skin Diseases Hospital in Thessaloniki, 6572 isolates of different dermatophytes were obtained from 17 120 patients examined. It is suggested that 5% of the people who present with skin problems in Greece suffer from dermatophyte infections. They are frequent causative agents of tinea pedis, tinea cruris, tinea corporis, tinea capitis and tinea unguium. In this paper, the species, the number and the prevalence of the dermatophytes were studied according to location and sex of the patients. The contribution of dermatophyte infections to the overall incidence of superficial fungal infection over 10 years was also studied. Zusasmmenfassung.Dermatophyten‐Infektionen kommen in Griechenland sehr häufig vor. Im Mykologie‐Labor des Krankenhauses für Haut‐ und Geschlechtskrankheiten in Thessaloniki wurden von 17120 untersuchten Patienten 6572 Dermatophytenstämme isoliert. Daraus wird gefolgert, daß in Griechenland 5% der Personen, die Hautprobleme präsentieren, unter Dermatophytosen leiden. Die häufigsten Lokalisationen sind Tinea pedis, cruris, corporis, capitis und unguium. In dieser Studie werden Anzahl und Artzugehörigkeit der isolierten Dermatophyten sowie die Dermatophytosenfrequenz abhängig von Lokalisation und Geschlecht der Patienten dargestellt.

Key concepts: Dermatophyte, Tinea capitis, Dermatology, Incidence (geometry), Medicine, Physics, Optics

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