CHRONIC DERMATOPHYTOSIS CAUSED BY TRICHOPHYTON-RUBRUM

Authors
ZAIAS N REBELL G
Citation
N. Zaias et G. Rebell, CHRONIC DERMATOPHYTOSIS CAUSED BY TRICHOPHYTON-RUBRUM, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 35(3), 1996, pp. 17-20
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
01909622
Volume
35
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Part
2
Supplement
S
Pages
17 - 20
Database
ISI
SICI code
0190-9622(1996)35:3<17:CDCBT>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We believe that patients are genetically predisposed to Trichophyton r ubrum infections in a dominant autosomal pattern and that persons with distal subungual onychomycosis caused by T. rubrum invariably have pr eexisting T. rubrum tinea pedis of the soles. This relationship has ma ny potentially Important clinical implications with respect to diagnos is, treatment, and the prevention of reinfection.